Typically, I simply want to "peek" at an old Land Desktop drawing. Starting up a Map query, attaching drawings, performing queries - usually, when opening an old drawing, that's all far more than I want to do. Usually, I simply need to check something so that I can answer the question this guy on the phone is asking me.
It goes back to the interversion compatibility issue - Autodesk does not seem to think it's a problem, but as an end-user, I find it to be a severe problem.
Talking with a co-worker, he's said he's actually noticed less crashes. But he's been doing a lot of repetitive calcs, doing the same basic tasks over and over, so he just may not be hitting them. The only one he says he's been hitting (which is also one that I've been seeing with some regularity) is that dragging a Cogo Point label will often cause C3D 2009 to crash. We don't have to move the point or anything, but simply try to change it from the "default" display to the "dragged state" display, and CRASH! Like the other bugs I've mentioned, this happens only sporadically, and without warning or rhyme or reason. After the crash, we can restart C3D and move the "offending" Cogo Point with no issues.
However, I've been doing things like updating styles and reworking our template, and I'm getting regular crashes. The Styles seem to be less-stable than in C3D 2008.