Launching AutoCAD 2005’s Communications Center for the first time, the configuration screen is disfigured in the same way as the Activation dialog:

After getting past that annoyance, the Communications Center is displayed properly, but presents me with a dilemma. The lightning bolt indicates that a maintainence update is available, and links me to Service Pack 1. Clicking on that link opens up Internet Explorer (not my default browser!) to a page that is blank because it contains “Active Content” that IE has blocked. Unblocking the content requires three mouse clicks, and displays a page that is labeld “Autodesk Live Update” and includes no obvious content that should be blocked.

But SP1 is also listed explicitly at the bottom of the dialog, and it opens to a page that has no such warnings, has no blocked content, and has much more useful information, such as links to all available language versions of SP1, their readme files, and a feedback form at the bottom. Annoyingly, it too opens with IE, even though my system default browser is Mozilla.

I’m further confused by the fact that the links for the actual SP1 download on the two pages are completely different URIs—which one is correct? With the hope that they are actually the same, I’m choosing the second one—the one without the needless “active content” page.