Well stated Steve.
In my years on these fora, going back to before there was even a Premiere program, I find that if most people would state their hardware specs, their OS and any other programs running, their Asset and Project specs, plus exactly what they are doing, when the problem occurs, they would get a lot more help and get it much more quickly.
The time and space spent "venting" could be put to much better use. Also, there are probably many, who could help, who just pass up a rant, rather than try to help the OP work though their issues.
As I've stated elsewhere, the vast majority of the problems are system/OS/other programs, Assets next, OE next and then real Bugs way, way down the list. CS4 might prove to be the exception to that ratio though.
I would also expect a new version that is fully 64-bit compliant to be in the works. Unfortunately, folk still using 32-bit (depending on backward compatibility) will then scream that Adobe has abandoned them, like the SSE2 instruction set of a couple of years ago.
Last, and I'll end MY "rant:" when approaching a problem, tagging onto a post with "hey, I have the same problem," is not enough. One may have the same problem, but it may not stem from the same circumstances. Please post all info. Making a responder read back through a thread to find out what another poster had for system/Poject/Asset specs. is not likely to yield much help.
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