Lion crashing whole system. Mouse scroll lame.

Question

LION has crashed my system 3 times in two days since loading. It's slow to boot up too.
And, what's up with the mouse options. You have to drag your finger down to go up and up to go down. This has been the most frustrating! System prefs don't give you options. UGH! Any help?

Answer 1

LION has crashed my system 3 times in two days since loading.
That's not normal, but difficult to diagnose remotely.  Perhaps you have incompatible third-party software (try rebooting in Safe Mode).  Perhaps you have a damaged hard drive (hold down command-R at startup and repair the drive with Disk Utility).  Perhaps there's something corrupt in your user folder (try testing with a new user).  Perhaps you don't have enough free hard drive space, perhaps you don't have enough RAM, etc.
And, what's up with the mouse options. You have to drag your finger down to go up and up to go down.
That's natural scrolling, and can be turned off as tonefox has said (though in System Preferences -> Trackpad on a MacBook).  You'd be very surprised at how quickly it starts feeling right...  you just have to get your brain re-trained.  Imagine that you were putting your finger on the screen instead of the trackpad and moving the document around as if it were a piece of paper.  Then it makes a lot more sense that moving your fingers up moves the piece of paper up.
In any case, though, if you don't want to give it a try or don't agree that it feels natural after trying it for a while, you're free to turn it off.
System prefs don't give you options.
Since System Preferences is nothing but a collection of options, I'm not sure I understand your complaint here.  Are you unable to open System Preferences, or is there some specific option you are not finding?