Solutions for Acrobat X annoyances?

I just upgraded to Acrobat X and must say I am very disappointed in some of the new layout "features".
1. The fading toolbar window at the bottom of the screen - this has to be one of the dumbest ideas that the programmers came up with. On Acrobat 9 this toolbar was logically where it should be, along the top. I download and print a lot of documents. Now, when I open those documents within a website I must scroll down to the bottom of the page, guess where the hidden toolbar is, mouse over it, wait for it to fade in, then hit the Print or Save button. What a hassle, especially when you need to open and save tons of documents.
On this same fading toolbar is the page count for the document (i.e. 1 of 100). When scrolling through a document this is not visible!! HOW can I tell what page I'm on?? I have to mouse over the faded toolbar, and then is disappears after a few seconds. Argh!!!
Also on the faded toolbar is the zoom key, which, again, must be moused-over to appear, and then it goes away.
Is there any way to put this toolbar back where it should be (doh!), back where it's convenient? Computer users these days have PLENTY of screen space, we don't need to save a quarter inch by removing the toolbar line, and especially when it is so inconveniently placed and hidden.
2. The annoying box that is permanently displayed in the middle of the screen. I HATE this. WHAT were they thinking? And, to rub salt in the wound, there is no way for Windows users to turn this off and get rid of it!
3. The "Find" box - it's now gone, and requires the user to hit "Control F" - and then... a SMALL tiny box appears way over to the right of the screen for you to type your text in. So now, everytime I want to search a new document I have to go to the hassle of opening up the box. This is just ridiculous - here you have TONS of EMPTY UNUSED space on the toolbars above, but there is no way to move the Find box into that space!!! WHY is the box so small, did someone at Adobe assume people were only going to search for 5-letter words or something?
4. When I have a PDF file open and want to Save it or re-Save it - now requires and extra click because I have to select PDF first before the file dialog box opens!!
Overall Acrobat X is a BIG disappointment. I understand the goal was to "clean up" the interface. So, they cleaned it up all right, but then left all kinds of empty space on the toolbar, space in which you cannot use for anything, space that is just wasted!
Smart programmers design programs that require LESS keystrokes and mouse-clicks, NOT programs that require MORE. Also, programmers who insist on designing annoyances into their programs should be smart enough to include a way to get rid of the annoyance. For example, if you design an obnoxious box that goes into the middle of the screen, offer an option to get rid of it. If you design a search box that is only large enough for one word, then offer an option to enlarge it.

Is there any way to put this toolbar back where it should be (doh!),
back where it's convenient?
The Reading Mode head-up-display is not dockable and although it can be dragged anywhere on screen, it will always revert back to the middle bottom position when a new document is opened. This was one of the features introduced to maximise the document screen real estate for devices with relatively-short displays, such as netbooks, where even a docked toolbar is a noticeable intrusion into the usable space.
It's a total love or hate feature, but it seems here to stay, at least in the medium term. Of course if you exit Read Mode, the normal window chrome is shown.
The "Find" box - it's now gone, and requires the user to hit "Control F.
The reasoning I've heard on this was to make Acrobat's search box behave the same as the search boxes in web browsers, where it's hidden by default and activated by a standard keypress. It is also on the menu.
When I have a PDF file open and want to Save it or re-Save it - now requires and extra click because I have to select PDF first
Not necessarily. If you're working on a PDF and have made changes to it (dirtying the file) then the simple "Save" item on the File manu is activated. If the file hasn't changed, it's disabled specifically to show that it doesn't _need_ to be saved. You also don't need to click the "Save As..." submenu parent, just mouse over it and the submenu will fly open - so it's still click once on "File", mouse down and across, click once on "PDF". Keyboard shortcut as explained above is Shift-Ctrl-S, or via the system key sequence, ALT-F-A-P or ALT-F-A-<enter>
I know it's workflow-related, but comparatively few people ever save a PDF as a 1:1 copy PDF without the document being dirty, they usually want to save it with optimizations, extensions, etc. - which is why those have been moved to separate menu items in the Save As... submenu.

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