A new version of the Hipihi beta virtual world was released 7-27-07 PST which fixes a flickering problem with SL style (aka new style) prims.
Some problems with linking and unlinking objects and with copying and pasting objects seem to have been solved, along with some other problems in the build editor.
I was able to make a few simple objects without having anything go wrong and cause the objects to vanish or acquire some kind of illegal value that prevented their further use.
I figured some eating utensils might go well with the China. :)
Download speed for the Hipihi installation file remained at a dismal 4 KB/Sec. The Hipihi company needs to get a mirror site.
This would be a good time to give the Hipihi virtual world a try.
For info from the company in English, http://www.hipihi.com/index_english.html .
English Help and Support pdf file at http://www.hipihi.com/download/HiPiHi_World's_Help_and_Support(2007.7.20).zip or at the IdeaShape forums at www.ideashape.cn .
For general info on Hipihi write info@hipihi.com .
For support questions, ask at the Ideashape bug forum and right when you post there, without waiting to see if you get an answer or not, copy the content of your post and paste it into a private forum message to the IdeaShape forum member with the name Zoloe, who is a Hipihi employee, and paste that same message into an email to support@hipihi.com . You can also ask me, not that I'm an expert on anything, Hipihi included, but it's not completely impossible that I might be able to answer your question or find someone that can.
Please do take note that Hipihi only runs on Win 2K and Win XP with the latest service packs. Hipihi is not supported on Windows Vista at this time and to my knowledge does not work on Vista at this time so don't try it and act surprised when it doesn't work.

Cool! thx for posting...
Is it terribly hard to get it running on english os?
There are some steps that must be followed in order for Hipihi to run on English Windows.
There is information on this at my wordpress blog, at http://suezannecbaskerville.wordpress.com , and at the ideashape forum at http://www.ideashape.cn and there are links to information on how to register and install Hipihi at the company's English site at http://www.hipihi.com/index_english.html . You could also join the Hipihi msn group hipihi@msn.com . There are also Hipihi groups in Second Life, you can join them by using the Search button, if it's working, and entering Hipihi as the search term.
For me, it was just a matter of properly following all the required instructions.
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