Same issues in CS4 as CS5

So I have upgraded to CS5 hoping that the numerous issues I faced with CS4 would cease and go away. For a person in a position where Photoshop is the bulk of your daily use you might think that Adobe might have found the solutions for these irritating small issues that are easily found in repetition and can be repeated once you have them down.
Here are my issues with CS4 and now with CS5:
1. Every time Photoshop crashes my workspace resets as well as all of my brushes causing me to have to reset these on every crash.
2. Palettes still don't hold there place with persistence set. (mainly Illustrator issues)
3. Open documents as Tabs still resets every time you quit and then restart Photoshop (happens also in Illustrator)
This might seems small to others, but I use Photoshop for a least 10 hours or more a day and these small irritating issues add up to a lot of time when you are working in a fast paced production environment as I am.
Can someone at Adobe please look in to these issues????
I have been experiencing these issues since CS3.
You would think that programmers of such dynamic software platforms such as Adobe would catch this, but after it running my impression of CS4 and leaving a bitter taste in my mouth I thought a post might help.
PS
I am not a regular to these forums. I prefer to contact Adobe directly to discuss issues. I am just at wits end with these persistent issues.
Any help is appreciated.

drocknetopline wrote:
… I work with eight other artists that are all on separate systems and all have the same issues…
Find out what is common to all your nine systems. Do you all procure your RAM from the same source? Is the same IT team responsible for all your systems as well as the network? Do they just clone your systems rather than installing everything from scratch?
I agree with all the previous posters that this is something unique to your system.
Not once have I ever experienced any of those symptoms in CS3 and CS4, and I have been using them since the day each one of those versions was released—actually since the beta days. I do not use CS5, but you say you've been seeing this since CS3.
Chris Cox is not just any Adobe employee; he is a top Adobe Photoshop engineer and has been writing Photoshop code for some fifteen years. We are extremely fortunate that he contributes to this forum as a volunteer on his own time and dime. He has no obligation to do so whatsoever and no reason to be anything other than forthright with you or anybody else.
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