Preview.app - Behaviour of Tiger's Preview for Leopard's Preview?

Hi there,
I am a web designer and I use Leopard's Preview to look at different pages of a website's design. This includes opening several pages as images and switching between them. And this is where I'm having alot of issues with Leopard's Preview.app and long for Tiger's good old Preview.app.
*1. Blurry images for a moment*
When I open several images (like PNGs or JPEGs) together and switch between them within Preview, the new image is always blurred for a short moment, which looks strange. In Tiger's Preview the new image was always shown instantly in 100 % quality. This is not a real problem, but it annoys me. Even more in the full screen mode. Is it possible to turn off this blurry moment?
*2. Unpredictable scroll position*
Again, when I switch between several images which are of different height, the old Preview showed the new image at the exact same scrolling position as the image before. So when I was looking at the top of image A and switched to image B, Tiger's Preview showed the top of image B.
In Leopard' Preview the scroll position of the new image is totally unpredictable. Sometimes it shows the middle, sometimes the top of the new image. Is it possible to tell Leopard's Preview that it should behave like Tiger's Preview here?
*3. Crop rectangle without outer fill color*
If you used the crop tool in Tiger's Preview the image parts around the crop rectangle were darkened. In Leopard's Preview they are not. Here again: Is it possible to have the old behaviour again?
Hope you can help me.
Cheers,
Robert

Actually, it has seemed to some that the blurriness never does completely clear up, and that the Leopard version of Preview will not display the same degree of crispness that the Tiger version does. You can run the Tiger version in Leopard with a bit of mild hacking--indeed, you can run both versions simultaneously. See this archived thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5889735
Of course, you have to have a Tiger version still around someplace....I renamed my Tiger version OldPreview, copied it to my Leopard drive and performed the hacks described in the above thread. It is still working in 10.5.5.
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