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Boy, I'm in a bad mood.
Illustrator has the worst masking functionality on the planet.
Why the heck can't it just work like Freehand or InDesign? What is so awesome about Illustrator's complete unintuitive and even broken approach?
I mask something... boom, the color (line or fill) of the masking object is gone.
Have you ever tried putting masks within masks? Good luck with that.
If you click the edit clipping path button, CS4 selects not (as I'd expect) the very top mask but all it's child mask clipping paths as well. Hilarious!
I really wonder what brain at Adobe came up with that brilliant solution.
Or even better: click the edit contents button. CS4 will select the contents of the clipping mask but not any clipping masks inside. Wow. I'm speechless.

How crap like this can make it through beta testing and quality assurance (obviously non-existant at Adobe) into a real product, escapes my imagination.