i go to SMART meetings and i can totally see how if you get the wrong people in a meeting it could make for a lame meeting. i have been really lucky in that the people in my meeting seem to be pretty intellectual and thoughtful for the most part, so i have gotten a lot out of it.
on a side note, i missed my meeting this week and the nice thing is that i have more or less deprogrammed myself from feeling that old guilt or fear i used to feel with another program in that missing a meeting equated to not working my program/eventual relapse.