MAC OS X V10.7 Lion Killed My Media Centre....

Upgraded my Mac Mini I use as a media centre to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and no Front Row??? What the ?????! What's the point of having a Mac Mini to use as a media centre with no more Front Row??? I don't know what Apple were thinking, or weren't thinking.... I don't even know why I bothered upgrading to Lion.
I purchase movies through iTunes to watch using Front Row... no front row, no more movie purchases. I may as well just go to sanity and buy it on DVD, and use my DVD player. I was really looking forward to the Lion upgrade too............ back to Snow Leopard...

I use Diamond BVU195 USB-to-DisplayLink adaptors. Just updated mid-2009 13" mbp (a model that appears on the list in Peter Duke's post) to MLion 10.8.2 from SL.  Big mistake. Never a problem with SL, but Mountain Lion has been quite underwhelming.
Regarding the BVU195, there is flickering/pulsating when I open Safari Top Sites or open some sites such as Hotpads.com.  In Hotpads, everything seems fine until I move the mouse over a "house", an action that causes the map portion of the window to go nuts.
I have WASTED SEVERAL HOURS trying to get this fixed, trying 3 different DL drivers (1.8 seems to work the best), all the while having flashbacks of past Microsoft Windows' woes.  I have had my laptop lock up (requiring on/off button shutdown) more often in the past 3 days than the previous 3 years. And to think that this problem has been ongoing for over a year - unconscionable! on the part of Apple.  Why Apple and not DL?  I can open the same sites with no problem when using Firefox (my new default browser.)
Speaking of flashbacks, I can remember a time 20 or so years ago when I bought my first Compaq computer and was in heaven. I had a similar estatic feeling when I moved over to Apple 3 years ago.  The burden of endless angst had been lifted, or so I thought.  Sure, when I bought the Compaq, I spent twice as much for the "same" specs (sound familiar?) and had limited aftermarket upgrade options due to its proprietary build (sound familiar?) but it worked almost flawlessly (familiar?) and offered phenominal support, second to none (familiar?).  I never regretted paying out the extra money - the experience was well worth it.  But now Compaq, once a leader in quality and innovation, is now all but a forgotten joke.  I truly hope Apple isn't headed down the same path of putting out garbage and then ignoring the problems that follow.  A year and still not addressed - unconscionable!

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