I recently bought a Macbook Pro to use for school and I was planning on getting Maya for it but then I read and heard that Maya 2010 runs oddly on SL and that Autodesk is currently working to fix the problem, so I’m not going to ask you how long that might take.  Instead I’ll ask if I should just buy 2010 now, run Bootcamp and install XP until Autodesk fixes the coding for Snow Leopard and then install it on SL?  I assume since I have my own copy I can install it however many times I want since it is just the same laptop but different OSs.

Yep, definetly avoid Snow Leopard for now if you plan to run Maya.
Dual-boot would be good and also allow you to run Maya 64-bit if you like (on Windows 64).

n8skow [FA]

Well what If I were to get Maya 2010 now, but not install it? Once Autodesk patches Maya for Snow Leopard, do I just have to install Maya and it will download updates for it to run on SL?

Apple released 10.6.2 today, which fixes most of the reported problems

Phoppes:

Once you make an upgrade to the OS, in some situations the file access permission get changed thus stopping the application from launching.

Please do the following:
Navigate to the var/temp folder and make sure you have the proper permissions to the Toxik folder

http://mayastation.typepad.com/maya-station/2009/11/upgrading-mac-os-stops-maya-composite-from-working.html

n8skow [FA]