Some of the people who post in this forum have been submitting patches, testing betas, and doing other helpful things for the better part of two or three years. It's not unjustified to patch the OS to determine if that is the cause of the problem. Sure, it'd be unreasonable to expect everyone to run a patch, but it's certainly useful to ask a friendly beta tester if they can do it to see if it pinpoints what we should look at to fix the problem.