I appreciate all the responses. My intent was not to start an argument. But maybe to get a little consolation. I guess my anger did show through a bit in the first post. But again it is disappointing to be forced into an upgrade that is missing the one thing that I truly found useful on the older version, the one thing that an outdoors TOPO map software (TOPO being the key word, (the single most useful aspect of a topo map is the comprehensive dirt road mapping) and an outdoors gps unit should have. I Also Have both old and new mapsends legally. I even ran them side by side on my PC. Since my first post i have found some hope though it is not very usefull for me, it is the world of Custom Map making, I did a little research on it, it seems all issue can be fixed this way but it seems EXTREMELY complicated and time consuming. I have finally decided to just use this New XL and limited topo software for the highway and city mapping.
BUT (what iv been waiting to ask) Im now having problems loading maps on to my unit!!!
I save regions to my SD card through a reader, The unit does list the detailed maps that i uploaded but then when trying to activate the map in the unit I get a map security error!! Does any one have any ideas. I looked on the Magellan web site. and it mentioned something about renaming (this was the key to loading more than 1 region on to the SD card)so i tried that and it does also list the renamed maps when trying to activate but still im getting the ERROR!! even when trying to activate both renamed and non-renamed maps. Please help!!