Is Lion's desktop switching really glitchy?

I've been using Lion for almost a week now and it's pretty good. But I'm having a lot of trouble with the spaces replacement. It just seems really glitchy and very un-Apple like. For example, when switching from one desktop to another, the menubar slides away but the desktop icons usually just vanish, then quickly fade back in when the new desktop is in place. It seems hard to believe that this kind of thing would be design. Another oddity is that when you assign an application to all the desktops, it doesn't just slide in and out when switching desktops. It slides out on one desktop, but when the next desktop comes in, the application is missing until the desktop stops in place, and the application window abruptly appears.
I could swear this thing is just riddled with glitches. These are the kinds of little bugs that I'd just restart the computer in an attempt to resolve and as rarely as it happened, it usually worked. But in Lion, restarting doesn't seem to do anything because it always just jumps back in exactly where I left and inherits the problem.
Or was it really designed this way? There's no way.

Not unless you created them or copied them from some other source. In the desktop Sys Prefs there is a option to Browse for other images on your system to be used as desktop backgrounds. You did say you had collected some so I don't know where you put them but if they aren't in that system desktop pictures folder then they are someplace else on your drive. More then likely in your Pictures folder.
As for other customizations if you are going to install ML over the top of Lion, or Snow Leopard, those settings "Should" be carried over to ML. But as with anything Computer anything can happen.

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