Display quality for proofing & moving around in doc

I've used CS Review with several clients already, and while everybody seems to like the concept, most feel that it's just not good enough yet to replace our previous workflow of sending out PDFs and having them marked up and sent along to the next person. Reasons:
1. Inability to print or save comments (discussed amply in another thread) This is HUGE.
2. Quality of text display - even when you zoom in, the type looks very thin. I'm doing page layout for print publications, and people have gotten used to the way the type looks in a PDF. My editors complain that the text is hard to read unless they zoom way in, and they like to see more of the page when they're reading. And, the lack of scrolling ability makes it hard for them to edit at a zoomed in size.
3. Clunkiness of the zooming and scrolling tools. Several clients have had to ask me how to move around in a doc once you zoom in. I had to tell them about moving the little blue box in the mini navigator window. When you hover the cursor over these icons there is no tool tip text to tell you what they're for. Everybody expects there to be a hand tool that lets them just move the page around on the screen, but it doesn't. They don't like having to go to that separate panel and then back to the text window to make their edits.
It really feels like this is the original version of Bridge (CS2? CS3? I forget) - and I hope we don't have to wait for CS6 to get a version that works well enough to make it worth using.
To reiterate - everyone likes the IDEA of CS Review, but so far it doesn't work well enough to replace our PDF workflow.

Yes, large display - I'm outputting to a Panasonic
AE900 projector and putting up a 90 inches diagonal
picture.
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