Well, as the guy who asked the question, it seems pretty silly to me that I can't try the new version, especially in beta.
If you look over at the ipodlounge and Apple board, you would see that I tirelessly volunteer to help people get up and running with whatever software they use for their Audible files. This is with software I have either bought and paid for, or at least made a donation for shareware. After going through the learning curve myself, I help others by recommending solutions to problems I have already been through . Not that that entitles me to anything special, I'm just letting you know my intentions are good.
It seems unfair to me that I can't get a new test, when the reason I uninstalled MC9 in the first place was that it crashed so many times in the first day, I just gave up on it. If the new version is as good as everyone says, I'd like to try it. If it works well, I'll more than likely buy it.
But if the only recommendation I can get is to "get another PC", unfortunately I don't see myself getting MC9 anytime soon.
So I'll just stick with and recommend what I know, and my impression of MC9 will remain with what I experienced with the software and now the support.
Best of luck to you all here.
Parannoya- signing out.