[eluser]Davcon[/eluser]
iloveci - You're absolutely right. I think I should also stress that I consider myself very fortunate to be able to take advatage of the hmvc extension, thanks to good work that's been done voluntarily by another forum member. This thread has been poorly titled and I really ought to underline my gratitude towards Ellislab and Wiredz for what they've done.
insightFX - I don't use any formal template library as such. I generally chuck all of my design stuff in a module called templates. I'm pretty such that the way I'm doing things is unorthadox. Never the less, my goal with CI is to be able to churn websites out as quickly as possible and the set up I've been using helps me to do that.
This week I've lost four days of work do to problematic upgrades. So, things which used to work are no longer working. For example, I lost three days this week trying to figure out why FCK editor wasn't working on my new computer. Turns out it was due to a depreciated PHP function.
I know that you keep all of the previous versions of CI on your computer. I'm beginning to really see the value in that and I think that this never ending crusade to keep up with upgrades has got to come to an end for me. So, maybe I will just stick with the old stuff and be grateful for what I have.
Cheers guys!