and onto one of the final points:

Is anyone ever going to fix the buggy force feedback in dxinput?

I have 2 problems with that component. USB joypads don't seem to work at all with force feedback. If Usedirectinput is set to true also, a constant -x value is put into the input states from somewhere and the character just veers off to the left. I have to use analog to get around the problem....

Anyone know where I can contact soemoen who may be working on bug fixes to delphix in the hope they may consider sorting these issues?