Quote - Rigging is tidiouse work and takes up a LOT of time.
 But it all seems to go down the drain when I try to pose the figure. It always screws up the joints. They either invert or flatten. Does the new Bone Heat feature fix this?

i don't know for sure by what you mean. but as far as i've tried this new bone heat system i haven't use rigging at all. For the finger and pose i use pose edit mode and play around with the bones. At least that's all i can say for now. and i think it saves more time than rigging. that's my opinion.