How CS5 Help should work.

First of all, perhaps someone should get around to renaming this forum to something like "Community Help Viewer Application".
Most of the posts in here are from people who think this is a general forum to get help from the community.
What did you think was going to happen when you named it the way you did?
Next, I hate the AIR app. It's slow, clunky and hard to read. Nothing beats plain ol' simply HTML text and normal scrollbars, not the hard-to-see things you got going on now. But whatever, that's just me. That's all I'll say about that.
Help used to have a Navigation Tree on the left side. You took it away. Um, we kinda need that.
You seemed to have replaced it with a Search Results column. I think it should also have the left navigation in the right pane. If you think it's silly to have 2 left-side navigation thingys, perhaps you could just make a button to collapse the navigation for the standard help. That way, those of us who need it, and I can't think of who the hell wouldn't, can expand it.
But it has breadcrumbs you say. That's just more clicks. Everytime I read a page, I have to click on the breadcrumbs to go back to see everything. With the way it is now I don't perceive the "scope" of which pages in a section and how many there are without that left navigation. Like I said in another post, this is very suffocating. It slows you down. It makes it more likely for you to skip something.
After writing this post I plan to remove the Help Application. It does an awful lot to keep me from getting to the Help. Ironic.
After I delete it the online version will open when I click on Help > Illustrator Help. ...but still without that left navigation.
Who in their right mind removes navigation?
Just another idea: I always thought you should have 2 options in the Help menu. Illustrator Help and Community Help. They should be separate don't you think? If we need help we expect the short, concise just-the-facts information we're looking for that covers ALL aspects of the item. Not, "sorry it's been a week since my last post. I'd like to talk today about the Opacity Panel" (read: "But I won't tell you every detail, just some fun facts or whatever I have it in mind to mention.") Going to the community for help requires a different frame of mind and has different expectations.
Well, whatever. I don't expect this will get fixed. I thought the CS4 Help was annoying. It's just getting worse.

Okay so I don't hate the Community Help application.
An AE guru told me in a different thread how I can get the downloadable PDF's to behave the way I wanted.
I can't get that inside of Community Help, but at least now I have it.
Now that that's not grinding away at me I can choose to enjoy Community Help when I want to (as in explore and not seek concise and complete info).
It's way better than the online version with CS4 as the Search results are not truncated so much.
Sorry to sound like I have multiple personality disorder. And don't mean to blog here in a forum thread. Just didn't want to leave it the way it was.

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