FYI, Apple claimed to be aware of the problem months ago, and claimed they were working on it. (iMessage causes a lot more problems with the rest of the world - Android, Windows, BB, etc. - than just group messaging), but I haven't found out whether it'll actually be looked at before Andromeda and the Milky Way collide. Apple is notorious for blaming all problems that they cause on the rest of the world. (Steve Jobs, for as much as he is to be admired for, had an ego that was larger than any other construct in the history of the universe. If Apple invented something, he expected the rest of the world to just accept it as the standard way of doing things. I hope he's met reality since he passed, it was a total stranger to him while he was alive.)