Hi
No, as a side effect of this install the Fedora distribution would be tested, and if anyone cared it could be fixed before releasing the broken iso images. If I didn't make that clear, the FC5 test1 isos were broken in the video handling, not vmware player and that's that needs the support. I'd guess that the same breakage applied to real hardware in the same way as the vmware emulation and it has been fixed in updates. I'm not surprised at a test release having such breakage, of course, but I hope we agree that it would have been in everyone's interest if it had been noticed and fixed before anyone downloaded those isos. It's not a matter of having to do extra support since this had to be fixed anyway - it's a matter of how many people see and are inconvenienced by the broken version and form their opinions based on it.
I am sure people can calliberate their expectations according to the appropriate notes within the announcement, installer, release notes etc about this being a test release. Users are intelligent to understand that test releases might have bugs.