As I've said before, with the way they are proposing to implement updates to Joomla over the next year or so to v1.8, I don't see any point whatsoever in bothering with either 1.6 or 1.7 for the moment, just wait for 1.8. No sooner have you got to grips with either 1.6 or 1.7 a new version will be out again that changes everything once again. This doesn't even take into account the constant "bug fixes" that will be coming out for 1.6/1.7 that we've seen so far nor does it take into account the incompatibility with the huge amount of components/modules/plugins that is currently out there.
We're sticking to 1.5 for the moment . . .
