Howdy, Just read Juergen's note about an RC3 and that not withstanding really am happy to pass back my report here.
After installing RC2 and throwing everything I'd done recently at it I can very happily report - zero crashes, zero hangs, no funny control behavior (even when I drop the OS memory down to stated minimum) - I went ahead an ran some cursory and a bit more jobs with Base against HSQLdb internal and external, MDB and ACCDB and MySQL data sources, without any significant problems. Also opened up the ODFAuthors chapter on Base and made a good number of edits, early on, minimized it but never saved it. Finally after 27 hours up time (I crashed and got some sleep) for the AOO session I forced the VM to crash - on re-launch the AOO application reported that my user configuration appeared to be locked, with the warning about multiple users, and then started up just fine with no loss of my configuration data. The changes to the odt file, the Base Getting Started Guide, also all came back. To all involved - Thanks very much for your hard work //drew