And secondly, I love all the wonderful users of Irrlicht--and helpers.
My roomate recieved a late b-day/christmas present: a new computer, last night and because of that I am ditching my old projct to start my origional one. Anyways, that is off-topic for this message.
I decided to try OGRE and found one HUGE problem with it, though it might be good once you can get it to work...I'd rather work with tools that actually function.
I use Dev-C++ though I have .NET--because my laptop only has so much space, and my roomate is reluctant to have me programming on his machine (he thinks a virus will *just* appear, heh.) but he is allowing me to use Dev-C++ since another of his friends use it. Anyways, off topic again.
If any of you have not tried Ming with OGRE I have one word for you: DON'T. I went through multiple tutorials on how to get OGRE to work with Dev, when I got fed up by all the broken links to tutorials, and trying to figure out horrendious(SP) directory structures of patches/hacks and DevPacks I decided to ask on their forums. Actually I reitterated a question that was asked in the previous post and never answered. Mine was answered--if you can call it that.
This whole message is to say simply this: (For the time being) Irrlicht might not be the most advanced, fastest or feature rich library out there, but as far as I have seen it has the best user base, most helpful user base and above all else...it's made for *everyone* not just for people who can afford a M$ program; it is also for people who have M$ programs but a roomate who does not trust M$
Now, I might not know much right now (I'm sure that will change), and I might even port to NX, but all I have to say for sure is this: I will constantly check the message base and help when I can, 'cause I know when I need help there will always be someone to guide me in the right direction.
Keep it up Niko, and user base!
Whoo! 
