1) Well, every time you see a shift in words/images, that's an individual "frame" that I created in Microsoft Paint, which took some figuring and fiddling to get right. At least, in Post XP Windows, they've made mixing fonts and typefaces easier (Though they've also taken several of my favorite typefaces off the menu)... So there are about twice as many individual frames as there would have been if I could punctuate the phrasing of word-only passages with shifts between varying animations. As a contrast, I was particularly pleased with what I was able to do with overlapping animations at the end of my Monster Challenge IV: Identity starting at ~1:26... That was entirely an overlapping of animation templates (about 3)... and none of those templates are available in the new version of Movie Maker...

2) You're welcome :-) Short version: order and complexity take a lot more energy and resources, and is a lot more fragile than mush... But -- every time the energy and resources are available, the universe tends in that direction... (The great big universe that could?) ;-)

3) Yeah... me too... (going to work on that now)