P.S. In my 20 years of playing games, BD is by far, the buggiest game I've ever personally been affected by. It is a great game, and I'm having fun, now that things are pretty stable for me, but the game should not have been released as it was. Too many bugs that clearly should have been caught in testing. Just my two cents.
Safe to assume you didn't buy Ultima IX when it came out then... But, yeah, BD is up there.
BTW, 1.43 does seem to be an improvement over 1.42. Minus the sharpen thing I haven't read about a single new problem, and some really annoying ones were fixed.