I think there's several of us in the same boat, and much as I hate to take the role of albatross, work on Carrara is being driven by market forces. To those of us building content in Carrara, particularly Poser content, it is a bare-bones modeling engine that is easy to get used to and easy to work in. The main thing we want out of an upgrade is for several annoying bugs to go away. From the point of view of the potential new user, and very possibly the bulk of the Carrara users, what will attract them to Carrara 6 is the stuff that gets shown off at Sigraph. And there are a lot more of them then there are of us. Stomping bugs does not have the same financial incentive. The one thing that I'm certain of is I won't be suckered into sending money for another pre-release. I'm waiting until I can read the detailed list of what was done and not done before I even think of purchasing another Carrara.