Welcome to the Forums. This topic is probably more suited to the General Discussion board, and it will get moved there as soon as I'm done here. (With a locked version of the thread here to redirect you, of course.)

Regarding the encyclopedia...well, I personally can't see why people seem to be so diappointed about the new information being added to the back. That has always been the official word on the subject, from way back when the project was announced.