Another Ovi Share first-glance user experience

Excited from the Nokia World presentations I decided to give Ovi Share a try. Previously I've been using Picasa and some local photo sharing services such as kuvaboxi.fi - that is to say that I had some baseline to judge Ovi share against.
First challenge was getting into ovi.com. Due to some cookie issue in Firefox I just got some java.lang.NullPointerException when trying to log in. Of course the error message was total gibberish and, interestingly, I noticed that there is no way to report such bug from the Ovi frontpage. Yes, you have the FAQ, but no info what-so-ever how and who to connect in case of login errors. Persistent as I was wanting to experience Ovi share I did login with IE, was able to send bug report and finally get the thing fixed - pheww...
At first look, Ovi Share looked ok. If only it had functioned ok... Creating an album in the web is easy, and so is adding photos - great! Made few albums and that's when the drawbacks (showstoppers one might say) started occuring to me...
1. There's no way to create sub-folders! Are you real?!! So I can't make album 2009 and then sub-album Event XX? Uh, this front page will become ugly and confusing to use in a short while if I continue uploading my precious photos to these folders.
2. I can't edit photos in groups. So there I am uploading 50 photos from my laptop and I can't even tag them collectively or move them between folders without going through the photos one by one. wt*? please excuse me my French... I really got frustrated after like 3 photos. And I couldn't even delete them in groups to re-start from the beginning and upload the photos directly to correct albums. argh!
3. Tags, oh this one's great! As in bullet above, I can't tag the photos in groups - already a real pain in the bottom. It's done quite handy when uploading from my mobile device, though. But then in Ovi Share, why on earth can I not filter / search the photos based on tags? To use the tag search, I have to browse my way through to a photo which as been tagged with the particular tag and only there I can click the tag to search photos with similar tags. And what d oI get when doing this? --> No items found. Again wt*? I just clicked a photo with that tag!!
4. Uploading photos from my device. Overall, this works great in my phone. That is if I'm uploading to an album that already exists. No way to create a new album while doing it directly from photo browser application. Well, what the heck, let's just dump them to the default "root" album and sort them to right album in Ovi Share. ok, done. all items show nice in All Media. I create new album, start moving pictures one-by-one (well, I'd do it in groups but that's not available!). Doesn't take too long to notice that in All Media you can't see actually see where the images are stored. So there I am sorting 50 pictures taken & uploaded, and the only way to know which images I've already moved is to move between All Media and my album and make a manual verification. another wt*?!! I would spend two hours or so sorting 50 pictures and still end up with pics missing from albums.
5. Viewing the images. How come I can only watch these in full-screen by starting a slide show or downloading the pics back to my hard drive?  And what if I wan't to zoom in on some detail? To tell you the truth the experience of viewing photos is so bad that I wouldn't use Ovi Share to, for example, share images related to ebay auctions. Any potential buyer would probably just walk off immediately.
I haven't even dared to try the Ovi Suite on laptop if that makes things any easier. Ovi Share, as it is now is totally unusable. How bad can a first glance user experience be? Well, Ovi Share just set new standards for me

I completely concur.  I've just spent the last two days tryng to force both Ovi for PC and Ovi Share to do what could be fantastic.... but it's not, it's **bleep**.  I've gone back to PC Suite on the PC and am just about to give up on Ovi Share.
Here's my main gripes with Ovi Share
Ovi Share has the potential to be a great site but....
Uploading via the "World" share online symbol within photos is fast but....
You can't even choose an existing album - it always select the first one
Tags aren't created
The date of the photo doesn't go through - it uses the date uploaded as the date created
The description doesn't get uploaded
You can't move or delete multiple files when they are uploaded
There's more as you said in your post but it's really disappointing.  By the way, if I've got any of these wrong and there's a fix please let me know.

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