On the 4.73 release - I immediately hit a problem and worked around it in Windows 8.
Posting here to save others hassle
Problem: When I installed from .msi and fired up 4.73, a new mining console comes up. Very snazzy - good - but frequently crashed after a couple minutes at most - bad. Worse, the "Boinc MD5" on the new console displays something like 'Invalid checksum', so it's unable to see my copy of BOINC. The 'old' mining console also displays Mining Module Registered Version 26, but Boinc Processing Power is 0, Threads is 0. I tried all the usual tricks of registering the dll and tlb, no love.
Solution: From reading the beta threads - there's a problem in the new console where if you install BOINC in anything other than the default directory, the new console can't see BOINC. I guess it's not using a registry setting.
Thankfully the new console now also has a setting (good call Rob) to find non default locations for BOINC. You need to find your copy of gridcoin.conf (for me in windows 8, it was C:\Users\nappingpilot\AppData\Roaming\Gridcoin) and add the settings to wherever you've set BOINC and BOINC's data folder to. For me, it was the following, your mileage will vary:
boincappfolder=F:\Gridcoin\BOINC\
boincdatafolder=F:\Gridcoin\BOINC\Data\
Restart client, restart BOINC, fire up miner, bam! Good to go, back in business. All the crashes are gone now too, it's stable for the past 45 minutes. Keep up the fine work, dev team!