1. when I bought v7 there were no PLE's.  The PLE for complete didnt appear till months after the release, so even if I wanted to, I couldnt try it.
2. the fact that you can turn the wire display on/off doesnt mean it will be visible on top of objects in front. See the apearence in v6 in the image I attached. There is a wire frame but with hidden parts.
3. The comparison chart says for the item "Selection wireframe always appears on top of other objects that are in front"  : optional for v6 and v7infinit; a 'dot' for v7complete which means 'no'.
   so I would say that implies it is not optional to turn wire on/off; the display of the wire should be without the hidden parts behind objects in front of it.
4. The comparison list isnt reliable. I have seen things I thopught will not exist but they do (I'm not going to say what, maybe I misunderstood, maybe they left it by mistake
   I've seen things that were not mentioned as taken out but they did. eg - I cant change the size of the rendered image in the render window as I could in v6i. 

If I was you realm_of_ilusion, I would still report it again.

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