Concerned:

I think rkapsi pretty much covered all of your concerns one-by-one (well done, rkapsi!), but all of your frustration could have been allieviated by reading the stickys and the wealth of information at the top of the forums to start.

I have been using LW for almost a year now and I willingly upgraded to Pro because if I interpreted it correctly, it's actually a donation to help support the technology, a technology that I strongly believe in. Everybody's got their somethin' and not every thing is for everybody, but to me it seems your only gripe is the pop-up, which is easily rid of by a single-click. It's a straight-forward solicitation for support, you watch TV and are bombarded with images from sponsors (commercials), even public TV (at least in the US) has advertising. So I ask, what's the difference?

I do hope you're not offended by anything I have just said, if so, all apologies, just trying to pose an alternate view, which by your post, you sound like a resonable person with an open mind...or you're with the RIAA! (That was my attempt at sarcasm!!)

One Love,

Wild Peach