Decisions, decisions

As some of you know, I use PSP for all my photoediting.  I love the programme to bits.  I started off with PSPX2, but when I upgraded to a Win7 machine, I had to upgrade to PSPPX3 since X2 isn't Win7 compatible.   I've been using X3 for nearly a year now, and I have to say, I don't like it as much as I liked X2, plus I have some stability issues with it.  Basically it has a habit of freezing on me, and crashing completely when I try to use grid lines for any length of time.

I headed over to the Corel website to see if there were any new updates that might fix the problems I'm having, and discovered that there is a new version out, PSPX4.  Reading the bumf and finding out that it's a standalone version, I downloaded the free trial to see what's what.  Having had a poke around, it does seem lik they've improved quite a few features from X3, and also, there was no crashing when I messed about with gridlines.

This is all to the good, but I'm not sure if I'm going to upgrade.  There are several issues that arise with X4, which I don't have with X3.

• Qunitica's scripts for Pooklet's colour actions, don't work.  Depth charge ends up bright orange, so Corel have obviously changed the way some of the tools Quintica used to get the same results as Pooklet work.
• The scripts I wrote to resize my pictures for use in ppt for my chapters, don't give the same results as in X3.  They end up being HUGE.  Take up the entire slide HUGE.
• It'll cost £59.99 to upgrade.  That's a hell of a lot for a programme which doesn't do everything I want it to.

On the plus side though, if it is more stable, that's good.  Also, unlike with previous upgrades, it can be used side by side with X3, so I could conceivebly still use X3 for the things X4 doesn't do.  However, that's a bit of a faff, and like I say, 60 quid is a lot of money to spend on something I can't use fully.

So I'm currently undecided on what to do.  I'm leaning towards not getting it and carrying on with being annoyed by the instability of X3.  But it's not as if I need to decide right this minute as I had to when getting X3.  I'll think on it some more.