Well, after I gave it about 3 months, I thought I would try 10.1 again, surely that silly update issue has been solved by now, right? wroong! Now I think I will join the conspiracy theorists: could it be that behind all this new registration and libzypp and zmd incompetence lurks the big brother eye of homeland defense? Could it be that libzypp can't be fixed in a snap because the whole thing needs to be so that it can send all of our searches and files and shtuff to some windoze interface deep in some bunker in Arizona or Virginia, regardless of how we configure our systems? At the very least it is curious why system updating has become an issue, when there are numerous other schemes for accomplishing this relatively benign task, most working very well. What is the real problem? This kind of "progress" had only been seen in microsoft products before 10.1, correct? btw, after i ran smart update/upgrade, now the "update" button has turned orange!!!! should i reinstall zmd? are they coming to take me away? weirdness....