I just installed Guide 8 with the update from Bill. I'm glad the
program is shipping because it's been a long time coming and I know
Bill will always give update files.

Here are a few issues I found in the first fifteen minutes of playing:

1. The HD install is not very intuitive. I believe Bill Foley ran
into this problem. First, you have to double click the entries to
install (I assumed single clicks would work) - there should be check
boxes. After I updated Guide.exe, I redid the update and still
nothing happened. I had to uncheck the boxes, restart the program,
then recheck them. It would be nice if the program could autodetect
which files had been installed.

2. The animation leaves fragments. Try enlarging Mars to about 25%
of the screen size, then continuous animating it in 2 min increments
and watch the labels duplicate. The moon really goes wild. Jupiter
and Saturn leave a partial frame in the original location and
sometimes leave pixels behind. That being said, the animation looks
really good on my new home built fast (Athlon XP 2000+) computer.

3. When I try to go to Barnard dark objects the program says "not a
valid object". I put in several valid numbers. Perhaps I didn't
really install everything on the hard drive?

Thanks,

Derek