Photoshop CS4 impressions: many problems

I have been using CS4 for two days. It is slower than CS3, the interface is horrible and help does not work at all. I have posted elsewhere on the major bug that cursor outlines either vanish, go to a partial arc or freeze. This is really not good enough.
Help: the on-line help does not work. You get a generic page. If you try to download the PDF, it fails. The on-line help is useless. There is no help supplied withthe disk.
Image resize: if you want to resize and image you cannot do so in pixels. Why woudl anyone resize a screen image in - for example - points, which is one of the options on offer?
Brushs: Load gives a windows screen that is blank, withthe option to load .abx (I think)- files. None are shown, despite Win Explorer showing dozens of them.
The standard windows maximise - minimise-exit symbols are sometimes surrounded with windows colours and sometimes grey. Maximising an image window hide them and tabbing with F through the options never shows them.
Stacking when minimised does not allow the stack to be moved, but when you size to minimum it leaps unpredictably so you get a stack that just happens to be where it wants.
I find it extraordinary that actions such as dodging is noticably slower than in CS3, where it was essentially real time on any good processor. This has a 200-400mS lag. Menus take noticable time to disappear and dragging causes skewing and leaping in ways I haven't seem since Photoshop 8.
Frankly, I think I want my money back. Certainly, the company will not be buying this upgrade for our staff.

Thank you, Jim Farmer. Yours is a most helpful post. However, a number of people have posted to this thread to the affect that 'it is not Adobe's fault that [your] drivers are out of date'. This would, perhaps, be a reasonable position if the release that fixed some of the worst problems (from nVIDIA) was not dated 11 November 2008, that is, released long after the Adobe product. The original, allegedly malfunctioning drivers had a July 08 date - hardly ancient.
That said, it is very definitely the task of a software developer to ensure that the client has the support utilities on their computer that they need for the product to function. Adobe could easily check during the installation process, for example, and ask the user if they want to install the relevant drivers off the web. They could equally easily put a message somewhere - on the packet, on the CD - to the affect that new drivers would probably be needed.
As matters stand, however, the raw software package is typically unable to access help. The download of the help pdf fails (three times.) The user side PDF is hidden, and accessed only if you do occult things. (See an earlier post.) I telephoned Adobe support and got a young man who giggled a lot. He was unable to tell me how to access help in any form, promised to e-mail back and didn't do so. In all, it has taken around two person days to get this package operating in a way that is acceptable, does not fail without warning and has GUI oddities which are tolerable rather than show-stopping. It remains a Beta product.
I am writing this in the - altruistic, public spirited - hope that Adobe monitor these Forums and that they will take some action in later releases. It is quite unreasonable to expect designers and photographers to have knowledge at the level displayed by Jim Farmer, any more than a mobile telephone user should know about telephone operating systems, network domain multiplexing or other technical underpinnings of what they do. It seems evident to me that Adobe has a nest of suits and a separate herd of techies, and never the two do speak. The result of this is paid for by the customer, but for many people, I suspect, just this once, and on sufferance. Certainly, we shall stay with this one copy until matters are acknowledged and improved.

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