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>I can't begin to tell you how frustrating it is to try to use an
>application or tool or utility that looks and sounds really good, but
>then have to spend hours trying to figure out how to use it more
>effectively than what's given in the single accompanying 5-step example.
  Absolutely.  MS Windows is a dark gray hole - lots of time goes
in, and very little light comes out.