Ah, good tip, thanks. Still shouldn't happen.

Yes in most cased the ticket that had a "Pending issue" like the Icon Packager problem would be reserved. What we do is take the ticket, answer telling you that we know about the issues and we are contacting the developer for help, putting it in a pending status until the fix is in, or setting it to the side to provide more info for the developers on the nature of the bug.... and so on and so forth. In most cases your tickets should read as "escalated" instead of "closed". Now if you can give me some ticket IDs, PM me the email address you used, or anything else I will do my best to track them down and get some answers or at least find them a proper home while we wait for the fix to be processed.

Progress...

I still can't get my optical drives skinned when I apply a package.

But

I can skin the optical drives individually now.

Keep up the good work!

-Jeff

I updated the PM convo and confirmed my earlier info about the current status of tickets.

Will the Network Locations in the Computer window be skinned at some point also? The yellow default ones don't really fit

We are working on this issue with Microsoft.  It appears that there may be a shell issue that we are trying to get them to address.

Btw, I guess I should update this thread too..
IP4 4.09b cured all my issues with activation it seems..

I can run all parts of IP4 in sequence as many times as I want to without any of them nagging for activation.
To be sure the beta contained activation I renamed the sig.bin and they asked for activation when they should (I only tested one or two of the parts this way).

@pictoratus,
I was a bit hesitant myself when it was mentioned in the thread "activation keeps coming up..." that Goose40 got rid of this issue after installing the beta.
After asking for confirmation and receiving it from Goose40 I decided to try (making sure I had a new backup image before continuing), and, well it seems to have squashed my problems with activation (battle of activations etc) which is somewhat well documented in these forums.

As it is a beta, the only thing you can be almost sure of is that there are usually more changes than is publically described..
However, because it is a beta, treat it as such.

Regarding support, if they're similar to most support staffs they would be very reluctant to recommend a beta as this has the potential of creating even more problems.

Because some of this particular issue probably can be done online (serverside) there is also the possibility they have fixed the activation issue by providing corrected activation commands through Impulse (i.e the activation it performs after installing a product if it doesn't find sig.bin etc.)

Thanks for the info, haerdalis

I just noticed I can change individual icons again without the activation.exe error, and I was able to change my dvd drive icon.

Doesn't appear to be in SDC yet.

Probably just an oversight. I'm sure they'll get it showing up there soon.

Yeah, isn't it cool to finally not have to reactivate all the time...

My thought exactly