"Save As..." still working in Pages and Lion

Well, I'm not sure if this has been debated yet but what I find out is that the old function that we got so comfortable with in Pages, Numbers and Keynote still works after a full install of the OSX Lion.
If you do a fresh install of OSX Lion on an empty Hard Drive and then get the iWork CD and do a fresh install the old "Save As.." still works. What you got to avoid doing is don't update the iWork. Deactivate the warning about the update and continue to use the iWork pre Lion. All the Versions, Duplicate, Full Screen, Resume, Auto Save ... etc from the Lion and iWork Update 6-Version 9.1 features are not there. So we continue to work like before. No problem. There is nothing spectacular in the new update of iWork that we need. Stay with the old one and you can still have the "Save As..." and still enjoy the Lion.
RF,

Eventually, people are going to want an upgrade.
Saving in Lion is sooo poorly implemented, I can't begin to express how frustrating it is.
Here's a simple example from using TextEdit, but it's just as bad in Pages and all the other apps. Consider this:
I open file named database.xml file and edit it with TextEdit. Previously, all I would have to do was hit Cmd-S or go to the File menu and click "Save". Done. That's it.
Now, my save options are:
Close
Save a Version…
Duplicate
Export as PDF…
Revert to Saved
"Save a Version..." creates a new file in the original file location named database.txt -- not what I want to do.
Duplicate creates a new copy and now gives me the new option of "Save…" which still wants to save a text file and will force me to go through a warning dialogue to save over the original document - which I just wanted to save in the first place.
To add insult to injury, if I opened the file by browsing to it, the finder is pointed to the right location. But if I didn't, I have to hunt through my folders and find the location where I want to save the file, change the extension from .txt to .xml, and go through the warning dialogue stating that I'm about to save over a file of the same name.
Again, compare this to the previous work flow:
1. Open the xml document
2. Edit it
3. Click save.
That's it. No changing the friggin' extension, no new versions or duplication or hunting through folders. No warning dialogues.
This really is a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible (I really can't say it enough), TERRIBLE implementation. SOOOO ANNOYING! Please give us back Save and Save As...
We went from elegant to byzantine. This is the kind of crap we'd expect from Microsoft, not Apple. We need to tell apple through their support pages in the apps (go to Pages menu and click "Provide Pages Feedback...")

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