Users say Microsoft's Money is broke

It's true.

I have to echo the sentiment. While I'm not having the same bill-payment problem with the 2005 upgrade, there are lots of other irritating bugs that put me on the verge of going back to the previous version:

- After it resurrected old bills on the automatic scheduler, I had to completely re-do my scheduled bills and entire budget.

- I disconnected my accounts from online banking. When I went to re-connect them, it imported the banking info as new accounts, minus any info on pending bills.

- Online updates are erratic and confusing. When I try to manually sync my accounts it gives me an error stating that I can't -- because it's in the middle of an update!

- A change in the categories messed up the budget I had created, making "food" a seperate catagory, rather than the parent category, for "groceries" and "dining out."

These aren't huge problems, but 2005 doesn't really offer any real improvements over 2004, either. I liked earlier versions of Money, and I usually like having the latest and greatest software. But I have to recommend against this upgrade.