Hi Paul, I just checked with Pete on the history here and didn't realize that the new materials being set to default material was an ongoing issue as of a year+ ago. Sorry about that!! :blush:
I jumped in because I wasn't sure if the issue was fully resolved (from reading above) and I know that we made some changes this week to the order that materials are displayed.
We all realize that we've moving slow on the dev side (I'm going to post a blog about this in two weeks when I get back from the Netherlands), and will probably make a few more mistakes like this over the next few months as we trudge through a number of the big issues with our codebase/data model that we've mentioned before.
In general, we want to enable our beta group to test things fully, well before we release. Unfortunately, we're not there yet and have some sizable mountains to move before we do get there.
I sent you a PM with some more detail and would love to chat further on the subject.