Nokia 5800 XM homescreen problem/questions

Hello everyone,
I have a few problems with my 5800 homescreen:
The homescreen does not rotate when I rotate my phone. First I thought the motion sensor is disabled or even broken but then I noticed that the main menu and other applications rotate correctly. Am I overlooking a setting or is this a bug?
New emails do not show up on the homescreen. I've had an E71 before and new emails would always be displayed on the homescreen.
Contacts bar and shotcut homescreen cannot be displayed at the same time. This is really annoying, because the contacts bar was one of the main reasons I bought this phone - I did not expect that it eliminates all the other homescreen options I was used to from the E71.
Can anybody help me with these issues?
Overall the homescreen does not seem to be very flexible. I've already tried to upgrade my device firmware to see if any of these bugs were resolved, but I am still stuck at v21.
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Wow, all of these problems have been discussed dozens of times.  Next time please search before posting, but here are answers.
1: No the homescreen does not rotate.  It's not a bug, it's a "feature".  Wait for a firmware update and hope that Nokia decides to do it right for a change.
2: No there aren't emails on the home screen.  It's not a bug, it's a "feature".  Wait for a ... blahblah
3: No, you cannot show the contacts bar and the shortcut bar at the same time.  It's not a bug, it's a "feature".  You know the drill.  Also, no you can't show more than 4 shortcuts or 4 contacts at once.
Yes, the homescreen for the 5800 is only minimally useful.  You'll learn to live with it.  People are shouting for Nokia to add the widgets homescreen (like in the N97), but who knows if Nokia will see reason.  At this point they're trying to keep the N97 boat from sinking at the dock, from the reviews I've read.
Ravi

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