Change the way Lion saves files?

This has been bothering me for 10 years of using a Mac... (Windows users know what I'm talking about!) When you save a file on a Mac, the name and extention are both highlighted. Thus, when you type something on the keyboard, the whole name gets written over, including the extention.
It's highly annoying when you're tying to save and rename a bunch of files because you have to take your hand off the keyboard and grab the mouse and highlight just the name. I was really hoping it would have been inproved in Lion, but alas it has not.

And another thing... When using "open file"  (like uploading a picture to a website) the finder window that pops up is barely functional. Actually, I can't think of a single thing I can do with that window. You can't click on a file name (to highlight and change it's name) you can't control-click or right-click anything. It would be nice to have a TRUE Finder window when saving and opening files.   

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