Hi notanothernumber and dmuntean
VM2 is an excellent shoping cart, there's no getting away from that. However there are some very important 'ability' missing and it is, namely, the ability to have one parent product with child products and once a child product is selected from the parent product options the parent product image, price and stock changes to the child product in the parent product view.
Once this is sorted then VM2 will be head and shoulders above the rest but until then, and with regret, my hand has been forced to seek and find an alternative.
I've found an alternative that does everything mentioned above plus more, I won't mention what it's called here as that wouldn't be right.
As soon as, or if VM2 can offer that as mentioned above then no question about it, it will be number one shopping cart choice for me again but until then.....