It's kind of pointless for me because I already have Ultimate with 1.0 so what is the advantage... I said it's OK because it has a few 3d tweaks I guess

I'm estatic - I was "blessed" with a bs copy of Home premium that came with my Sony Digital Living System - after a failed attempt to get Ultimate working with this POS - i had about given up on the notion of getting an animated wallpaper - not the case now!!!! - awesome - super happy - & it looks great on 50" in 1080p - TY stardock!!!

Excellent!

I happy it was released.   It even got me motivation to create some Dreams.   

Me to and now the only difference between it and home premium for me is that it has remote desktop   I'm glad on only had to pay OEM cost to get it

That's one of the problems when anyone is dealing with computer or tech related items. If you want it, get it. Sure, tomorrow it will be offered differently, but then, that's tomorrow and not today.   

I have Vista Home Premium on my new laptop and I can't get it to work. I select a dream and it does absolutely nothing, no error or anything.   

Vista Home Premium and works perfectly 

Wish there was something for WinXP, would love to have an animated desktop.

Just wish there were more animated wallpapers as opposed to video loops. I am not willing to give up that much of my CPU continuously. The animated wallpapers are almost negligible. Also wish the Dream area would specify whether a dream is animated wallpaper or video. Some do, most don't.

DadBart
Basicly, there are 2 types of Dreams, dynamic and looped video.

Dynamic uses less CPU power because the dream is rendered by the video card not the CPU. Currently the only dynamic dreams are being relesed by Stardock as the software development kit to create them has not been released to the public. I believe all the dynamic dreams in the dream gallery are marked as such.

The other is looped video. The amount of CPU power that a Dream needs is dependant upon what type of video, wmv or mpg, is used to create them and also the resolution and bit rate of that video. If the dream was created by a WMV it will use more CPU than one created by a MPG. Also the higher the resolution and bitrate, the more CPU it needs.

I hope that helps explain the differences.
Lastly, if my understanding of the differences is wrong, I'm sure someone will correct me.  

At least one was released by a user who worked some kind of magic.

Charity Drive by Littleboy (aka Julien)

The command-line builder is just an alternative way to create dreams (using the DreamMaker dll under the hood), making it easier to integrate into my build process. Building that little helper app wasn't really difficult (apart from the MessageBox calls that I had to redirect to the console).

As for dynamic dreams, there was no magic involved, just a lot of trial and error