Trying to stay organised with Mission Control Grrrrrrr.....

I currently have Safari open in full screen mode and 8 windows = 8 spaces.
I have Preview in full screen mode and 3 docs = 3 spaces
I have iTunes, iPhoto, Reeder and iCal in full screen mode = 4 spaces
i have Finder on one desktop and Path Finder on another = 2 spaces
Therefore I have 17 spaces for 7 apps in total and its a complete mess
I want all windows for a specific app to be in the SAME destop space (you know, like Spaces in 10.6). I like to flick through all my open web pages using the old command ~ but it doesn't work.
Spend so much time going to mission control and hunting for the page or doc I want. This is ridiculus. I consider myself a power user and this is wasting so much time.
It's not that I'm resistant to change but it seems that Mission control is poorly thought out and implemented.
Am I doing something drastically wrong or is this what we're stuck with?

I like Snow better as well and YOUD of THUNK it that they could have given you the option to KEEP the other or not, why is it not a preference you can remove or add and let the user able to switch the settings on or off. They look similar and each has a unique gift, but I still choose Snow's... and MissionCritical would probably be better for me if Swipe actually worked... NOPE SWIPE does not work like a lot of other nifty stuff on my laptop.
I love when I need the full screen to use it, and perhaps if I had 4G instead of 2G it would be better to transition in and out but wait a second I'm sounding like a WINDOWS user --- is APPLE secretly planting ideas in our minds, or do they have the impression that there are so many new windows users the transition backwards won't hurt so BAD... SORRY I miss the day when a MAC just worked and a MAC you could PUSH and PUSH and PUSH and LOAD IT TO THE GILLLS and she'd still deliver that 25# baby. That's right, I'd have 4 browsers open with 20-50 tabs each and sometimes 70-100 tabs in one, usually always had 2-3 browsers with 40-100 open tabs and in and out of excel and word and pages, preview always open it seemed, mail open and closed many times with an occasional iMovie and a quicktime player open, yeah sure it bogged once and ahwile and it had a spinning wheel sometimes but I could see why --- Not with LION - Sorry - No Excuse.

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A suggestion/request:
I gave "mission control" a good try. I really tried to get used to it, over several months. I'm kicking myself for ever upgrading to Lion -- all because of "mission control". It is a complete disaster.
Apple doesn't like to admit their mistakes, and I have no confidence that they'll ever re-release Spaces and Expose for lion.
We need a developer to write a replacement that reproduces the unctionality of Spaces and Expose as they were in Leopard.
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Mission control is a disaster. To move a window from one desktop to another I have to first find that window via multiple keystrokes or swipes, go to that desktop, zoom out, then move that window to another desktop and zoom back in. I have to repeat this process for every window I need to move.
My workflow has been seriously crippled since I upgraded to Lion, and if I hadn't stupidly upgraded most of my applications, I would have already re-installed Snow Leopard. I may do this anyway, if I can figure out how to recover the old versions of my documents and data. Unless someone will save me the trouble by developing a replacement for Spaces and Expose.
How about it. How many of us would pay $20 or more for it. Personally, I'd happily pay $100 for it. Considering how much time it will save me from downgrading to Snow Leopard, $100 is a bargain.

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During my workdays, I hardly ever swipe the trackpad to get into     MC; I switch workspaces by clicking on the primary app in the dock.     (Full disclosure: if you read some of my other posts, you'll     discover that this obscures a more complex reality of some shameless     software hacking I did, but that's a separate discussion.)
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Even so, I still feel that MC represents progress, because at     least I can use it to completely separate out the other 6      projects, getting them completely out of my way when I'm not working     on them.
I'm also willing to cut Apple some slack on the MC     implementation after reflecting on how difficult I would find it to     give MC sufficient information to do better, both in terms of      initial configuration and moment-to-moment use. I can think of a     way to modify the Dock options submenu to assign Dreamweaver to two     different desktop/workspaces, with a possibly unacceptable     increase in submenu length. But I can't figure out a satisfyingly     brief way to specify “ I want to work with Dreamweaver in     Workspace 2 --not Workspace 5-- now.”   Nor can I figure     out how to deal with transient situations in which I need to use     Dreamweaver for a few minutes for a totally unanticipated purpose.      I'm certainly not going to want to define a new desktop/workspace.
Likewise, a file (or group of files) that is long-term pertinent     to Workspace 3 now may required for Workspace 7 tomorrow -- for     about one hour only.   How to communicate that?     Or if     --shudder-- a file or group is equally required simultaneously for     both workspaces?
You and I know the context of each app and each file, what     projects we are doing, and how these vary over time.   For the     moment, there just doesn't seem to be any practical way to     communicate all this to a computer within the overall “desktop”     model.
In the meantime... I'm hoping that Apple will open up MC by     making it scriptable.

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