I was finally able to score a trial download over the weekend and got it running tonight. I don't know what all the wine party was about on the
Autodesk groups because the new ribbon interface causing the uproar has finally come up with what I wanted the old dashboard to be in 2007. I probably will never get to be paid to use the thing and there are almost certain to be a few glitches when people start using it in production but it will sure be fun to play for awhile without all those toolbars chewing up what space I could muster on my little 17" flat panel. Incidentally, the program installed and is running reasonably well in its own XP virtual machine with 20gb of disk space and 2gb of memory to play with - my video card is an aging 128mb AGP.