Ray... sorry for the testy post, and thank you for your reply. I do understand that you are a small company doing what you can... and for the most part I'd say you do a wonderful job.
My frustration lays with the fact that nearly one year since it's release (MySQLi) I still have to choose between making an outstanding feature rich yet obsolete site with DataBridge.... or I can create a basic site (ala Dreamweaver style Extensions) that uses "future ready code".