Everio G

I have went through many phases of owning an Everio G. It is really cool because you don't need to buy cartridges. It's stupid because you have to buy batteries from JVC, accessories are hard to come by like the DVD burner, and you have to keep buying software for it.
The camera works great. Getting it to a DVD is a pain. I got the share station. You can edit movies and burn them from the camera to the share station. You cannot put the cool stuff into the movie on the camera.
My software expired within months of getting the share station. I went and got another movie making software and it worked maybe a couple of times. Which was great, I got to make some movie gifts for the family.
For the past few days it was making me send error reports. My computer has been doing that lately. I knew it was not the computer. The burner has worked before. I asked questions on every site I could think of. I got no response. I tried Twitter, Facebook, and even Yahoo Answers. Nothing.
I went to the JVC website and I sent them a question. I asked them if there was something out there that would work instead. I have yet to hear from them. I removed and reinstalled all of the software. I finally hit the upgrade key. I looked for free downloads. I found patches. Patches fix stuff. I found a few for the Power Producer 5. I downloaded a patch for error messages.
Last night I burned a movie and was successful. I guess it helps with experience of digging around. I should become a journalist.