I don't think I've ever had that error, but I've seen many new users come up with a variety of bizarre problems and it is almost always a result of user error. If you don't know what's going on then it's easy to do things that Maya doesn't like and that crap builds up over time and can screw up your scene. Keep your…
I personally don't like to have to code a half of my own software, especially if the other half is not free or cheap either. Having a scripting platform is a bad excuse for not coding the basic stuff in properly.
I approached it a second time now, left again with the same feeling of "go through three menus to extrude a cube". Can't I just hold one key and drag the mouse to get a result? No, hotkeys get you as far as opening the window only. (there are no defaults as well) This feels almost as bad as Blender. I found some…
I can't work without swiftloop. If you're going to use 2009 make sure you get polyboost. The retopology tools in polyboost are great too, its a must have. I also can't live without UV flattening scripts (wrote these myself, but there are more floating around, James Hayward, SoulBurn), rescale UV shells (MoP's Normalize…