I was the first to report this fatal error to Micromat when the original 4.01 CDs came out (there was no 4.0); basically the 4.01 Optimisation procedure trashed 3 of my G4s back then. Micromat spent months trying to solve the problem (their main programmer obviously hadn't got a clue where he'd gone wrong IMHO!).

To be fair to MM, they have since seemingly solved it on the latest couple of releases from 4.04 onwards, but my point is that they released software on original CD that was fatally flawed. The original early adopters (who'd paid for and waited nearly a year for MM to get their finger out and release it) now stilll have to pay MM another $10 bucks+ to get a .0x upgrade CD to fix their flaw. I feel this is unjustified and that the 4.01 CD early adopters should get a 4.04/5 CD for free for the hassle & damage it has caused. They should change their system to allow us, the users & owners of the CD to make a new version of the original CD, but with an updated main program. *That* is what the .0x upgrades should also be doing as well as updating the copy already on the Hard Drive I feel.

Before you ask why I don't just create an eDrive and forget about the original start-up CD, I personally feel their .0x upgrade procedure is also fundamentally flawed because you have to create an eDrive from your start-up CD first (so the main system + hard drive etc. isn't active); then upgrade it manually later. Well it never works correctly for me no matter what way I try it on different machines. Catch-22. As I said, the upgrades should allow us to create our OWN incremental start-up CDs and not have to keep MM's revenue stream going 4-times a year to have to purchase a new 4.0x CD off them each time. They're just holding a gun to our heads. Yes, every company has to many money but that's taking the piss.

Shame really as I've been loyally using TT since version 2 and always preferred its results over Norton's effort.

I just feel MicroMat have completely lost the plot in the past two years; back in the old days I remember E-mailing the main programmer (whoever it was back then) personally with feature suggestions and bug-fix requests and there were written, implemented and released just 10 days later. Now *that* was service and a company who was switched on.

Those days have long gone, as now has my loyalty. I've since switched my allegiance to the newcomer on the block for OSX drive maintenance -- DRIVE GENIUS! Look it up on VersionTracker. It's cheaper that TTP too.

I recommend the rest of you talk with your feet to and maybe MicroMat will finally get the message to wise up and produce a worthy product that does what it says on the tin. Shame really. What a waste.