Well, in all fairness it's really just the one problem: no database rebuilds

Right, Mark. I never meant otherwise. As a matter of fact, Alpha5 worked quite well for me, for what I tried it - except for the dbase bug.

Well, I would imagine you will not have to wait too long until they fix that little bug with another release.

Yes ninti, I think too that is a possibility, and hope so. Also considering what it is said in the release notes:

which would have been a
public beta except for known issues with content transfer via emplode,
and lack of Mark 1 support.

So we are very close to beta release, and we can be quite happy about it

But, as you said, regardless of these other considerations, a very nice christmas present anyway!!