Been analyzing the traffic on the CMC Beta forum too. There be activity there. Likely they're squashing some persistent bugs and having a busy time of it.
Sometimes I may sound lime a member of that irate customer base that demands answers, but I'm really impartial now. Heck, I have a ton of things to play with before CMC comes out (if it does):
There's beer, scotch, CMBB and almost a hundred other PC games I haven't even taken the shrink wrapper off of...
...did I mention scotch?
Ah, scotch....slurrrrp.