ATI, MMC, and the HDTV Wonder

Wow.. ATI continues to amaze me at their apparent inability to make a program that actually works. MMC 9.06.1 came out recently, so I upgraded (my MMC had broken installing 9.03 (thanks ATI!) so I wiped it out and then tried MMC 9.06.1. Now, my wife got me this card for Christmas (yeah, yeah). Anyways, it hasn't worked reliably since she bought it. I mean, is it REALLY that hard to make a program that reads the bloody data from the card? Other manufacturers don't seem to have this problem. I can't even get the normal TV functionality to work! Now, I'm a programmer, and I know making programs, particularly for those who are new to the business can be hard, but this is ATI! They've been doing TV cards for YEARS. You'd think they'd have figured out by now how to make an MMC program that doesn't crash and is able to tell you in either english OR tech-ese what's wrong. Just crashing and letting Windows tell me it crashed in mmc71.dll is NOT enough.