System too helpful annoying

Is there anyway to tame the lion? I find, having moved from system OS9 recently, that I'm fighting with the computer to get things done. The auto setups are extremely annoying, they try to guess my next move and disrupt my work flow so I have to constantly figure out how to get around them. Such as: jumping screen positions. The document screen moves all over the place as I'm trying to enter information and I'm fighting to try and hold my position to get a few lines of text input into a spread sheet. Is there anyway to tame the lion and shut off all this second guessing of what I'm trying to do?
Also, I don't like this hidden saving of documents all the time. I like to make changes to a document and resave it under a new name. What's with this having to make a duplicate first, then it auto saves some place you don't want, before you can save it to the folder you want, not the one the computer wants. Very annoying. Oh, and what about this "I don't have permission" to resave a file to a folder on my own computer? Shouldn't we be able to turn all this computer control back to operator control?

Wow, you're as miserable as I am. lol. I have used a Mac performa since I purchased it many years ago. I'm still using it as it has all the software I had to purchase and will not work on the new Macs OS X. But then you know that, right? I love using my Macromedia Freehand, My Photoshop, etc that I'm not prepared to dump for a lion.
Maybe I have to trouble shoot the issues my self. ie: is it possible that when using spreadsheet programs that it's the settings on my new mouse? The slightest touch and the document I'm inputing text into moves unexpected left right and up and down. Is there a way to turn the swipe feature down to require, oh . . . . this is taking too long . . . I don't want to write a book here. The question is: Can I shut off all the automatic "guess what the user might be thinking of doing next" features?
It would be nice to just stop all the invasive suggestions and rerouting of my plans to get some work done. I suppose you spurn the idea of system OS 9, too bad as it was state of the art at the time, and there is still nothing wrong with it. I'm sure we don't need to split apple into two camps here, I just want to get some work done without interruption.
Simple question: Is there anyway to tame the lion?

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