My Feedback and complaints on CS6 and Lightroom 4

I really am having trouble finding any other way to send some feedback to adobe so maybe this makes its way to someone who cares.
Overall the feature enhancements to CS6 and LR4 are good, however they have been executed very poorly.
I am very upset with the way CS6 has been working in comparison to CS5.5. It is slow all around. When something needs to be updated the programs I have open start running super slow and exhibit strange behavior with mouse clicks and menus that I have not performed forcing me to lose time right in the middle of working on projects to update the software and restart then boot up all the programs once again and find my place. Several things that worked in CS5.5 will not work when the project is imported and updated to CS6 version. Additionally Lightroom 4 is god awfully slow compared to Lightroom 3 and the brush utility is extremely laggy.
The newest nusance to this update is that my application manager has now been updated and replaced with creative cloud application manager yet I do not want to use creative cloud, which is why I purchased a copy of CS6 and not CC. During this update I was working on editing some large panoramas in lightroom 4 and became super frustrated when it started bogging down and was essentially useless to use, right in the middle of a project.
Why does this happen since the application manager doesn't even have anything to do with LR4?
I am very disappointed in the upgrade from CS5.5 and LR3.
I hope that somehow, without having sign up for the Creative Cloud, that Adobe will improve the speed of the software and functionality and release a patch or update.
For reference here is the system I am using and have been using with CS5.5 and LR3 with no problems, great perforamne and good reliability.
Windows 7 64 Pro
AMD Phenom II x4 840 3.2GHz
16GB DDR3 RAM 4x4GB
NVIDIA GT450 1GB

My student has been using Lightroom 4 with Photoshop CS5 on her Mac for well over a year. Because of the difference between the Camera raw version available to her in Photoshop CS5 and the raw process in Lightroom 4, she has been exporting her raw images from Lightroom and choosing the "Render using Lightroom option when it popped up in the dialogue box. She has been doing this for over a year and a half without any problem. Today when she hit Command E no dialogue box appeared and the image just opened in Photoshop. I'm concerned that all of her Lightroom edits are not being rendered to Photoshop. Anyone have an idea as to how we can get the "Render using Lightroom" dialogue back?

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Always value hearing from you, Monika.
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And yes, the potential Pantone problem is easily remedied.
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-ST

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I have an adobe account so I have proof of purchase and have documented serial keys.Thank you in advance for any help you can give me.
I may suffer severe withdraw if I can't process my photos before I get home.

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