say nik don't dis microsoft paint.

I've gotten out of several tight spaces with it, when merely-passable graphics were needed in a short time frame on a computer with no other graphics-editing software.
It's actually not that bad. Until PS 6.0, I used MS Paint to draw circles and other curves, then copied and pasted in Photoshop. From that last sentence, can you conclude that I can't draw at all with the freaking Pen Tool? Yes. Such a counter-intuitive system for drawing curves.... Of course if I spent more than 1 hour a month using PS, I would learn how to use it, but for now, I can get by without it.
BTW the links to your site aren't working. nslookup from my university's server shows " can't find ffmcobalt.com: Non-existent host/domain". more DNS problems?