@AussieSapphire: I think what I and others in this thread are trying to say is that checking the box in My Profile to visual editor does not work - ie. for me, it did work to make WP2.1 use the visual editor but that the editor did not actually work properly.
I think we all understand that, but here's the thing: It does work for me and a whole lot of other people.
All the people whom I've helped with this issue had problems with their browsers, somehow. Either greasemonkey or an adblocker or a javascript blocker was messing with it, or they needed to clear their cache, or something else along those lines.. I'm not saying that this necessarily is the problem you're having as well, but I've been able to get the thing to work on every machine I've tried it on.
The new editor is very heavy on the javascript. If you have anything interfering, it will probably break. That can't be helped, your browser doing weird things is sorta your problem. Clear your browser's cache's. Try turning off adblockers. Don't go through proxies. Enable javascript. Make sure you uploaded *all* the files from the Wordpress ZIP file to your site (including all the JS files). Whatever works, yeah?
Or don't. Turn off the visual rich editor and use the normal one. It will work without any of that stuff. Not as pretty, but hey.
@robertocasiraghi: I just can't use the new version, it's full of bugs and is unpredictable in its general behaviour.
Then don't use it. Look, I think it's great. It makes things a lot more consistent, it's a lot faster, and I find it to be a lot easier to use. But if you don't like it, then that's okay with the rest of us. Stick to 2.07. Or switch to a different blog package. The fundamental thing that you have to understand is that *we don't care* about what you do. That's your call.
If you do want to try to use 2.1, and need some help, I'm more than willing to help you with any problems you may be having. But taking some kind of attitude that the people on this site somehow owe you because you're using a piece of free software, well, that's just uncalled for.
@robertocasiraghi: Announcing a bugs fix release wouldn't be such a bad PR move,
Find a bug, submit it to trac, and maybe it'll get fixed. Or fix it yourself and submit the fix. Or whatever. This is free software. Until you pay somebody for it, your room to complain and assume this kind of attitude is extremely limited.