Looking through the system I can only find a few files in System/Library/Extensions that were updated today with this update. My GMA950 related kexts are all still from Oct 2007, so I guess that means those of use using this poor chip didn't really get to see any (or many) fixes? That would explain why Blender is still useless.

hey.
download this build i found it on blendernation:
http://landwehr.dk/blender.zip

I believe some time ago Apple announced they would now release printer driver and graphics driver updates separately from OS updates.

Not sure why.

In theory, this would open the path to more frequent updates that are independent of OS updates. Before, you'd have to wait for a system-wide update before the drivers would get rolled out.

We might also see the manufacturers taking a more hands-on approach to the drivers being released for their products, rather than letting Apple do it.

I agree. I also think that since drivers depend a lot on 3rd party improvemens first, IE, nvidia has to update their base drivers (which apple modifies for OS X) to fix certain problems. Sometimes one fix breaks another thing too. In a trouble shooting perspective drivers which apple isn't 100% in control of seperate is more logical anyway. That way if a problem starts after installing drivers apple can diagnose it better..ANd the end user can have less of a hard time rolling the update back too..since it was independant...instead of trying to roll back to 10.5.1 simply because of bad drivers, they can roll back to 10.5.2 still minus the drivers. :)