Mountain Lion has real trouble!!

Having all kinds of trouble with Mountain Lion:
1. It tries to log me out when it goes to sleep - causing all sorts of issues with growl, time machine, and mail losing it's account settings temporarily - it is mail that doesn't allow the logout, but I have to take all accounts online, hit Cancel to not allow the logout, and sometimes there are even a few other dialogs.
2. I get the message when I run Automator that it's not compatible with this version of OS X..."you can't use this version of automator with this version of OS X - you have version 2.1.1." Excuse me, but I upgraded from your App store, I would think it included the Automator upgrade...
3. Very upset with the RSS being removed from Mail (or Safari) - particularly without telling us, found a nice replacement but it's "another" app on my dock...Prefer not to use it
4. This also occured in Lion, but Numbers loses it's formatting on spreadsheet columns or cells sporadically when re-opening the file. btw Apple, I hate the Save As command disappearing - I've tried it since Lion and can honestly say it stinks - you are appealing to the lowest common denominator - Does someone know how to get it back?
These are only issues I come across since last week...

Yes ty Matt - I actually had moved the old version to utils directory, and that's the one I ran when getting the error - Mountain put the new version in my apps folder (I'm a 20 year PC veteran so getting used to this OS is taking time).
Probelm #2 solved, # 3 just a rant.
#1 #smokemonster is still an issue - SMC: I'm not sure what that is, but I am not on a laptop, it's an imac permanently plugged in, and besides i've done everything that url you posted said to do - still logs me out - the screen will be blank (after the 1 hour i set in energy savings) and all of a sudden siri (samantha actually) says "Are you sure you want to close all apps and log out" and when I sign back in there's a dialog asking the same - now sometimes mail won't let it log me out but also the new rss reader (vienna) i'm using also won't....Other times it is completely ready to log me out but for the OK=Cancel dialog waiting for my input...Weird.

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