Interesting,

Not really done much with materials save for loading everyone else's.

I got Windows 8 in the end, and, after much tinkering, I really like it. PP2012 runs and has only crashed once, but I think that was due to corrupt xmls so I've deleted them and started afresh.

When I spoke to SM about the issue the other guy had, they said that PP2012 was fully compatible with Win 8 and it was a DSON problem. Daz said that not many of them had Win 8 so they hadn't tested DSON in it.

Thank god nothing happened to me or they'd still be debating it in February!

CHEERS!