I'm a proffessional software developer (70% of my job anyway) and all the things you've mentioned are absolutely dead on. If you'll notice in the original post, I was reluctant to "hold" the list and was more interested in an FAQ on this site which is more appropriate. Some things. 1.) I have posted bugs to the Carrara site at Eovia and I've actually received reasonable feedback. If your experience is older, perhaps you should give them another shot. 2.) There's been some chatter about another patch (past 1.0.1). I think it's probably going to be Carrara 2.0 and we'll all be buying it. They're supposed to be releasing it this summer. It's a complete supposition on my part but probably accurate. 3.) I am another person who couldn't get the code to work out of the box and had to apply the patch. All the work I've posted on this forum has come from Carrara as well as many others so it does run. I've been a Ray Dream user for many years and the transition hasn't been painless. Making the change requires some significant effort on a person and I know many haven't made that jump yet. That's fine because I truly hope the next version will be a lot more stable and hopefully more powerful. I thank you for your comments because I think they're the realistic side of keeping a bug list. Keep posting.

-Kix