Annoyances in Safari 5.1 (Lion): Tabs, Resume, Reading List, etc.

Having recently updated to Lion, I am confronted with several annoyances in Safari. Considering how much — and how faithfully — I use Safari, these cannot stand!!! Please help me get old functionality back!
1.) Tabs now insert themselves left-to-right from their originating page. I prefer the old way, adding them to the end of the tab bar from the right. I am a big user of tabs and this is completely disrupting my workflow.
2.) Resume seems to be stuck on for my Safari. Although I disabled it in System Preferences > General, Safari opens up the previous page when I quit. Help me go back to the way it was where Quit meant Quit, and a new launch opens the home page.
3.) How can we get rid of Reading List in the bookmarks bar? I don't like that eyeglass icon taking up precious space. If I want to use this feature, I'll use the keyboard shortcut or menu item. Please tell me there's a way to remove the icon? (similarly, it's probably a good idea to remove the Top Sites or Bookmarks icon)
4.) Downloads folder as separate window. I prefer the way it used to be, where you could drag a link to a media file right onto the Downloads window, and you could show/hide it using a keyboard shortcut. Is there a shortcut to open the Downloads list? Is there a way to pop it out as a floating Window?
I'm sure I'll think of more, but for now please please help me run Safari the way I am used to!

Not that it matters, but I've figured out the twisted logic in Tabs.
For any individual page, every tab you open will appear just next to the source (let's call it source A), but will spread in the traditional manner, with new ones appearing directly to the right. So all the tabs launched from source A will follow in the order which you opened them.
However, if you had another tab open during that time, let's call it source B, that tab is now way down the line. Here's a ghetto-*** diagram:
Before:
Source A - Source B
After:
Source A - Tab A1 - Tab A2 - Tab A3 - Tab A4 - Source B - Tab B1 - Tab B2
And I presume what we all want is the classic way:
Before:
Source A - Source B
After:
Source A - Source B - Tab A1 - Tab A2 - Tab A3 - Tab A4 - Tab B1 - Tab B2

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