Saving older Illlustrator files in CS4 - some questions

I have a ton of files in older versions of Illustrator that I am converting to CS4 and two defaults slow me down.
1. When I go to save the file, the title is the original title followed by [converted]. So if I have a file named Picture.ai, load it, and then save it, Illustrator wants to save it as Picture [converted].ai. Is there a way to automatically prevent CS4 from appending the [converted] tag?
2. when I get to the save window, the two options "create PDF compatible file" and "use compression" are selected and I have to deselect them. Can I make the default what I want globally so that I don't have to deselect each time?
Thank you.

The first can be undone by unchecking append Legacy files with converted in the preferences.
The second you might be able to do an action or you would have to write a script. I think this is broken as it use to be, if I am not mistaken, a sticky setting?

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