[EvilleJedi]

I think the main problem was that up through max 5-6 the development was distributed, there was no core team working on it, just developers contributing code until there was enough for a release, max 7 was vastly improved IMO from havign a core team (and probably why they changed the discreet/autodesk as the publisher)

[Scooby_Doo]

After using edit polys for a while, I've noticed that make planar is screwed up badly.  I have to add a edit mesh to the stack and use it's make planar to get the right effect.