Autodesk customer and AutoCAD guru Lee Ambrosius has published to the web his draft version of what's new in AutoCAD 2006. Definitely worth a look.
Link to What's New in AutoCAD 2006
Lee has a blog as well: http://hyperpics.blogs.com/beyond_the_ui/ in addition to his web site http://www.hyperpics.com.
Cheers,
Shaan