First point
Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) may have been able to repair this, so worthwhile having for anyone bar Vista users (built in).
The other points are made, this is still beta software and work in progress, which i think is coming along very nicely.
As far as the requirements are concerned for running MP, these are challenged by users every day, who read the specs required and despite not meeting them, still download and try running MP and wonder why they have problems.
The Documents are being given a major overhaul atm, but this is a mammoth task, last time i downloaded the MP manual (yes there was one) it had in excess of 100 pages of printable material and i believe this has only grown with todays version.
Regards