I'm a few weeks new to Drupal and to a cms - I'm very glad I chose Drupal.
I've been a user for about twenty years and I develop W32 programs and SQL databases to support my research.
Today I decided to explore info on how close we are getting to the release of D7 and I read one instructor's comment that he is already using D7 for his new students, so I decided to install D7.
Aside from the standard error that at least many are getting, the install was a success and instructive about how good the install.txt is in telling you what you need to know, and it was empowering because now I'm not limited to the versions that my hosting company makes available.
However, I soon found myself held hostage to a horrific CPU hog and bug that is challenging our devoted developers:
http://drupal.org/node/615130
Aside from the enormous resources this bug is drawing from the development community, I am _greatly disappointed_ that this community of wonderful developers has decided that Drupal will be a better web development tool with a large (animated?) graphic overlay to provide access to all of the menu items under Administer.
Why are we better of with the added resources of flash-type graphics for our day-to-day menu selections?