Thanks for the help offers, much appreceated - I wish e-on was as sympathetic and helpful as the vue community.
Writing up the (many) new bugs is a time consuming task and I doubt it's solvable by anyone but e-on. (Some maybe Mac related). I may come back to it when time (and frustration level) allow,  submit to e-on and post here.
In any case, my point in this thread was to present my point of view with respect to new (for pay) versions: when there are serious bugs in existing versions e-on should give priority to fixing those.
I'm not holding my breath...

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