Good to have you back!
Since you are back, I'd like to ask a couple of questions: could you give us some insight into the status of the "gold" patch? There are a fair number of us who have installed the beta patch and are using it. Many people are providing feedback, but I sympathize with whoever it is that has to wade through all the bug reports. Not surprisingly, there are problems that the patch has added, the most important from my perspective is the problems with feats. The home rules generator remains only partially functional since it doesn't provide access to all the field necessary to create, for example, functional magic items that impact on abilities. (BTW, I've forwarded my observations to techsupport, but was using this as an example.)
Are you planning to post somewhere the bug list that Wizards is aware of and the status of each bug?
Finally, recommend that, when you distribute the "gold" patch, that you include a readme file that provides, at a minimum, advice regarding how to back out the beta patch prior to installing the final and offer suggestions regarding how to save user items that may have been added to the database. This is useful information that might help prevent a lot of anguish amongst the customer base.
Thanks for your attention.