Having the opportunity to view "Preview Releases" of Apple's Quicktime 5 is cool, but here's what sucks:

• To use the preview release, you have to uninstall your existing implementation of quicktime completely.
• The preview release is for a limited time only, and expires on February 15th.
• When it expires, suddenly most of your software doesn't work because it relies on Quicktime codecs to raster JPEG and GIF graphics, as well as manage MP3 and AIFF sounds. Basically the sound turns off and a lot of pictures don't work.
• When you try to download the New public beta, with an expiration date a little further in the future, you suddenly realize that everyone else who downloaded Quicktime 5 PR 2 is doing exactly the same thing and you wonder why you can't seem to download the files you need to make your computer work...

Gak. That's all...