First, thanks for the feedback. It is all helpful. With so much change, there are going to be a lot of places where there are bugs, but also places where things just might behave a little differently.
2. I was able to open the 3.4.3 version of the software but was warned that it could not [load | find] my preferences.
Expected. New version will make necessary changes to certain formats, so some saved files won't be compatible with earlier versions. Once you run 3.7.X, your preferences will be updated and 3.4.3 won't understand them. Backup is recommended.
3. Upon looking more deeply at the BETA 3 software, I noticed that on the Game tab, the Controls -> Alerts button was highlighted and that a custom sound associated with my events was could no longer be found.
This should not have changed. However, if your preferences changed, the path to your data store
might have changed (although data store info is stored in a different file). So if you have a sound with a path like
<datastore>/somefile.mp3, the
<datastore> part might have changed. Hard to say.
4. Using BETA 3, when trying to use my custom Suggest Prize file, it could no longer be found and the software defaulted to its inherent Suggest Prize file.
Again, it might be specified with
<datastore> which may have changed.
5. Using BETA 3, when trying to Configure a new Custom Prize file, I was only presented with a file browse option. It appears I have to manually configure the xml file to actually configure this prize profile.
Not sure what you mean here. Of course when you want to use a custom prize file, you'll have to locate it using the file browser. Is it that you are unable to locate your custom prize file?