Finder Frustrations

I have about a half dozen Finder Frustrations (I'd call them Finder Funnies, but they're not that funny anymore). My downloads folder (and others) always rearranges content into alphabetical order no matter what I do in any settings. It also rearranges all folders in that folder as well. I upgraded from Snow Leopard, hoping to escape some Finder annoyances, only to gain additional ones (for example: https://discussions.apple.com/message/12085356#12085356). I've found forums regarding files spontaneously re-arranging themselve alphabetically, but not some of the following:
New Finder Frustrations include:
1) Finder opens the WRONG folder at times upon dragging an item onto a folder you want to move something to. You need to be VERY CAREFUL here, folks, because I had to use Spotlight to find a file when Finder dropped it into the wrong folder and I didn't notice. Fortunately, I remembered the name of the file and could find it misfiled in a totally unrelated folder (and, no, I didn't drop it in the wrong folder; I've seen this bug multiple times and now never just drop any file onto a folder; I wait for it to open before dropping to be sure it's the correct folder and often it is not! When it opens the wrong folder it opens another folder somewhere in the same general area). This seems to happen in my download folder A LOT.
2) Upon dropping a file or dragging a photo from your browser into a folder, Finder jumps to another location in that folder. You then have to go find the file you just moved or copied in order to perform any actions upon it, such as rename the file. If you have a folder with lots of other files in it, that can be a big pain in the hiney.
3) Not sure if this is a part of Finder, but QuickLook now initially shows a grey box upon first hitting the shift key when trying to view a photo (see https://discussions.apple.com/message/16046574#16046574 for example image). I can close QuickLook and hit shift again, and it opens appropriately. In other words, I have to highlight a file, then hit the shift key three times to view it. Annoying.
4) I'm also not sure if this is still present in Lion (I'm waiting to see; it was definitely a problem for me in SL), but the Finder will move a newly named file to another part of folder when the folder is opened at a later date. I find this on my computer very commonly, but since it was doing it in SL, not sure yet if it's still doing it Lion.
I will say that a big problem I had in Snow Leopard, pixelated icons, seems to be impoved in Lion, at least at this point. Unfortunately, one of my biggest problems with Snow Leopard, losing ethernet connection upon awakening, is still there, though it seems less often. But that's for another forum (https://discussions.apple.com/message/16047173#16047173).
Does anyone else encounter any of the above? Better yet, do you have any solutions?

I was hoping against hope that Mountain Lion would magically cure my Finder Frustrations, but, alas, 'twas not to be. Now my downloads folder keeps rearranging itself alphabetically A few, but not all, additional folders have done so as well. The downloads folder does it regularly, but not every time. I have view options set as "arrange by NONE" and have been to sure to rearrange files once with "Clean up by..." and NOT "Arrange by...", but upon downloading a file, the files suddenly go from where I've place them (my 'to be installed" stack, my "to be deleted" stack, etc,) back to alphabetically! Very annoying!!!!!!!!! I have deleted my Finder prefs to no avail. The other new crazy thing since Mountain Lion is that now upon using Spotlight to find an item, hitting "return" doesn't always open that file! I sometimes have to click on the item instead, or I can scroll down or up from the item, then go back to the item and it will then allow me to hit return to open said file or folder. Annoying. SlowLook works OK as long as I don't have but one user account active, otherwise you get the grey box frequently (see https://discussions.apple.com/message/18761845#18761845). Forget Fast User Switching, even if you have max RAM in your iMac (I do). While this may not be Finder related, the computer still can't connect to Ethernet after awakening from sleep. Seems like we go two steps forward and three steps back. Have I said, "Annoying" yet? (I always try to work "annoying" in at least three times every post).

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I'm trying to give BT more money, but the "system"...

I'm losing my mind here.
I have recently became aware of BT's decision to remove usage restrictions during peak hours for certain types of traffic (e.g. Peer to peer). As an existing Infinity customer ("BT Infinity Option 2") I would like to get rid of these usage restrictions as they're the only part of my current service that I find frustrating.
So my plan, as a (once) happy BT customer, was to recontract to "Unlimited BT Infinity 2" and by doing so extend my stay with BT by at least 6 months (my current contract expires in April).
This is where the fun starts...
My first attempt to upgrade was through the website. It was on MyBT that I discovered the newer packages and attempted to upgrade immediately, however towards the end of the process the website gave me an error message of 'service unavailable'.
I assumed the website was broken and so rang the customer options team, who promptly informed me that I was on the best possible package and it was completely unlimited. As I hadn't tested any P2P applications since finding out about the change in usage restrictions (I didn't realise at the time that they had been introduced in February) I gave them the benefit of the doubt.
Unsurprisingly, the next time I tried to use a P2P based application during peak hours the throttling was still evident. After doing more research on the subject it was clear that my current package would still have the same usage restrictions it had always had and that I clearly needed to upgrade. Armed with more specific product names, I tried to ring BT again...
This time I resisted the "But you're already on the best package" speech and tried to explain the difference between a download limit and traffic shaping - by the way, I find it annoying that not one of the sales team (all of whom work for a major internet service provider) I spoke to seemed to understand the difference. Eventually I was transferred to the technical department, which was useful in this case as I could check once and for all if the usage restriction was still active on my line, 30 minutes of language-barrier-awkwardness later we decided it clearly was. At this point, the lady informed me that she had put notes on my account and that I was to contact the options team the following day for further advice.
I did just that. After explaining the difference between download/traffic restrictions the sales advisor, after consultation with his manager, informed me that I would be unable to recontract until my current contract expired. This didn't make any sense to me and I proceeded to send a complaint email to BT asking why they were so against me giving the company more money and to get in contact with me to resolve the issue.
They contacted me today. And, as you can probably tell by the tone and length of this rant, they didn't resolve the issue. After the usual back and forth about download vs traffic restrictions the lady informed me in no uncertain terms that there was nothing they could do as the system would simply not allow me to get Unlimited BT Infinity 2. This seems bizarre to me as all the availability checks I have run clearly list the following:
- BT Infinity 1
- Unlimited BT Infinity 1
- Unlimited BT Infinity 2
The "system" at BT clearly has the final word. I find it very difficult, however, to believe that the reason I cannot get the service is because it is not available in my area. Removing P2P restrictions doesn't seem like it would require any major hardware changes so I believe that the "system" is simply blocking my ability to get rid of the P2P restriction as I am an existing customer.
If it is available for new customers in my area, then it is an insult to us all that BT can put the following on their website:
Some Internet service providers put restrictions on certain types of Internet traffic or limit how much you can download or upload which means at peak times of day, customers may experience slower speeds.
We don't think that's a good enough experience for BT customers so we have made all of our unlimited products 'Totally Unlimited'.
Does anybody know if there is any truth to the 'unavailable' story? Is the availability checker on the BT website broken? Has anyone had similar issues trying to recontract? Is Sky broadband any good...?
Sorry for the rant... If you got this far, thank you for reading!
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I use Gmail IMAP and Apple Mail 4.2. One thing I find frustrating is that if I am trying to keep an eye on my spam / junk for wayward messages (as we all should do from time to time) I have to check 2 folders.
Is there any way to set it up so mail that is tagged as spam by gmail goes to the Junk folder in apple mail.
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Bridge CS6 Previews of raw-files have bad (pixelated) quality after editing.

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I normally edit jpegs just as they are, in versions, this should be fine I think?
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