Iphoto usability problems

Iphoto 7.01 has some glaring usability problems. These are the issues I've experienced.
If you have too many keywords, when you select the find by keyword option in the find box, the list of keywords goes off the screen, and there is no way to scroll through the list, rendering the search-by-keyword option useless.
Adding keywords in-line is cumbersome. If you want to tag a picture with the name John Smith, and you already have a keyword named John Apple, then iphoto automatically adds Apple after you type John. After a while this becomes maddening.
You can no longer move photos to the trash if you are in a smart album. This is very frustrating as it means you have to go into your main photo library and manually search for the photo you want to delete.
The search text box is buggy. When you click on the magnifying glass, the list that comes up is frequently in the wrong place.
In the Keyword Window (command+K) iphoto starts to alphabetize the keywords as you add them, and then after a while it starts putting them in random order.

I agree on your comments here.
I use Keywords alot, and the new way (without the ability to always have the keyword list up to use for sorting and assigning) is a pain in the butt from a usability perspective. Especially since the windowspace the keyword list sits in the prior version is just as free to be used by the keyword list as before.
Any keyword that is longer than a word or two (like "name 2005 birthday" and "name 2005 Mothersday") look exactly the same now ("name 200...") on the button list since the buttons are so scrunched (anyone with a long first or last name forget it) and I can't make them any wider. Same for assignment or selection. Had the keyword ordered to have your most common ones at the top and grouped together (like by family etc.), well that's gone. It's always alphabetical now.
Obviously alot of dev time went into this different way, but its a much less efficient and less usable a system. What a step backwards.

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