Edmund, from my status with the Colormunki I think your suggestion to wait is sound. Six months may not be a "scientific" figure, but considering your atagonist provided the bit of information about X-Rite firing 100 people, I'm betting bug fixes won't come quickly. My fallback i1 Match software package that I got last spring was only made Vista compatible with this month's update in case anyone wonders how responsive X-Rite has been to the consumer calibration market.
I gave up trying to request support via X-Rite's site and called their toll-free number. I got a call back from their tech support and have been able to provide details of my system and my problems with calibration. I've confirmed my displays support hardware profiling and it sounds like X-Rite thinks its a hardware communicaton bug. I appreciate being able to talk with an X-Rite support person and I was pleased to get a return call in less than a day.
Meanwhile, I was able to install the application on my notebook and profile it (for what that's worth). I also tried profiling an Epson digital projector. The profiled projector's color was improved, but I'm surprised the profile for the projector is left active once the projector is unplugged. Even if the Colormunki tray application couldn't monitor the Dsub port for a projector, I'd think there would at least be a tray option to select between display and projector profiles. No such luck, and there's nothing in the main application that I can find either. When you finish projector calibration there's message strongly suggesting you calibrate a projector a each use. Since there's no way to tell the profile loader to restore your display profiler, it seems that X-Rite intends you to profile *twice* each session with a projector.
I'm attracted to the Colormuki's price and feature set based on the reviews I've read for its ability to create good printer profiles. I don't intend to do much printer profiling, but if I get a device with the capability I want it to work well enough that I'll use it and not be tempted to instead buy profiles. The device will primarily do my display calibration and I expect that color sampling will be my next most frequent use. Since I have the ImagePrint RIP and access to its vast catalog of profiles, I really will only use the Colomunki's print profiling capability for the odd specialty paper for my graphic design business needs.
There's no standalone uninstaller for Colormunki but there is an unstall for it via the Windows Control Panel. I discovered that both the i1Match and prior Monoco tools I've uninstalled left deadwood in the registry. I hoped that clearing that out might get calibration working on my main workstation, but no luck. Colormunki for Windows is build on the .net framework and I have to say that so far I've only experienced slow and buggy applications build on that platform.
BJ