LION and LION apps frustrations

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I simply cannot understand why the Mail application in Lion deletes the "Address" or "Address Book" button, or the abllity to add it, in the outgoing message window.  Yes, the button is available in the Message Viewer window; but this requires one to leave the window in which the message being prepared, to go to a separate window, then to return to the message.  This is ridiculous.
The other alternative, remembering "Option-Command-A" is not satisfactory; nor is going to the menu bar to select "Address Window."  Put the darned Address Book button back in the outgoing message window, where it has resided very effectively for years.  Or, add it to the customize option in the message window so we can put it there ourselves.
This is just one of the many unnecessary and annoying changes implemented in Lion.  Despite the major features, some of which may be useful (many are not), the myriad minor changes that make things more difficult to find simply make Lion an annoyance I wish I had not purchased.  I am still trying to work with it, but I am seriously considering returning to Snow Leopard - with that, at least my Intuit (Quicken) and Photoshop Elements applications would still work (yes, I reboot to a drive with Snow Leopard to use these; yes, I plan to update to Photoshop 10 when it comes out; and yes, the decision not to update Quicken for Mac after deletion of Rosetta so that bill paying could still be done from within the application was a boneheaded choice by Intuit, not Apple).  But the bottom line is, switching to Lion has caused disruption for me in many things I (used to) use daily.
In addition, some of the new interfaces are simply ugly - the grayed out left-side bar in the Finder window, same in Mail - are awful.  Even the log-in screen background is ugly.
Perhaps Lion is supposed to prepare us for "Cloud computing" but I abhor the idea of sending my files and data off to someone's server, with no idea of where that server is, or what measures are taken to secure the data, or who else has access to it.  It is another feature I will not use.
Lion, and its supporting applications, are a disappointment - and I haven't even addressed the utter failure of Safari 5 to properly handle cookies (I addressed it at length elsewhere).  But basically, no matter what the security settings or the selection/non selection of "Private Browsing," Safari 5 accepts cookies from any site visited.  It's bad enough that the cookie handling selections differed unnecessarily and confusingly from previous versions; it doesn't matter, because they don't work!
Bad job, Apple.

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