Kodak Easyshare software is still NOT Easy

We recently purchased another digital camera for our okay listings and personal family use.
The camera is excellent, photos are great, and we are pleased with the purchase, BUT wish we had never heard of Kodak Easyshare software.
BEWARE- this program seems to take over your geputer and causes the speed to drop beyond anything elsewe have ever loaded.
Further it will take all photos on your geputer and convert them so they cannot be opened with any other program, then when you try to open them with Easyshare it says "cannot open the collection, please upgrade to latest software" or other messages.
Extremely difficult and time consuming to try and get photos back from this evil software menace.
In addition, program is almost impossible to delete, difficult to use, and keeps tellingus thatwe do not have the latest upgrades, even ifwe upgrade every day (which takes forever and requires rebooting again and again)
We tried everything, and even after following all regemendations from Kodak "tech support" (NOT) and other regemendations we found on the internet, we still have to deal with this program every time we log on or boot up.
We love the camera, just hate the Easyshare software and caution anyone that is considering purchasing a camera with that software to be sure you have the time and memory to run this monstrosity before you load the CD.
Go online, view other reviews, Google the word Easyshare and you will see many other similar postings.
Glad so many people love the program, but this is one user that wishes he had never heard of it!!
This is an update to the above posting. Dated September 2007, We have recently gotten rid of the so called Easyshare printer and will soon be deleting (if we can) all Easyshare software from our geputer.
Kodak Easyshare is still the worst program I have ever encountered in my time using geputers as far as slowing down, not responding, pathetic customer service, memory used, and just about anything else you can describe that would be bad about at program you downloaded on purpose. Acts more like a virus than a good program in my opinion