Desktop Icon drag behavior.

What can I do to make the OSX desktop act like the OS9 desktop?
When I option drag a folder from the Find window to my desktop to work, I find that the folder or file will appear on my desktop where ever the system wants it to. Like under a window or on top of another folder etc.
What I expect to happen is, like with OS9, that the item will be placed at the free space where my mouse is pointing but this doesn't happen. I end up having to close windows to find where the OS put the thing I just duplicated to the desktop.
Same behavior happens when I copy an item to my desktop from a remote server.
Similar behavior when I unstuff an archive on my desktop. The unstuffed folder ends up somewhere on my desktop but it is not predictable.
When I print a postscript file to my desktop in OS9 the file will always appear in the first free space on the right under whatever icons are present.
With OSX it will appear someplace on the desktop
SNAP TO GRID
SHOW ITEM INFO
SHOW ICON PREVIEW
KEEP ARRANGED BY
are all UNCHECKED
How do you deal with jumping icons and unpredictable placement?

Cap locks was on and I didn't feel like re-typing everything.
What I expect is that when I move an "item" to a "place", that that item will land at the last spot my mouse appeared when I released the mouse button. That is what OS 7-8-9 did. OR you could snap to grid, arrange icons by name etc...
The Apple Human Interface Guidelines used to be the best but they have slipped after OSX came along. My case in point: Lack of the appearance control panel in OSX.
I cannot see the blue or gray FRAME highlighting when I tab through an interactive open/save dialog box. I cannot keep track or what field/pane is active. I could see a warm orange or red color but this cannot be changed. Another example, I like the sliders to be a contrasting color like orange or red, but this cannot be changed in OSX. I like a heavier font for menus labels and headings that is more readable but this cannot be changed in OSX Things like this that relate to the finder have been suggested in feedback every other week for almost 2 years.

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