Tweaks to the language system and how to fix them

Question

First off, I love the fact that now you can actually scroll through the list by continuing to hit the spacebar as you hold down the command key. That's great, and it saves me a whole lot of going up to the menu bar to change around.
That said, this update seems to have broken a whole lot of things that used to work before:
• As opposed to being instant, switching seems to lag now, and sometimes doesn't even switch where expected, but skips down the list a couple
• Some of the extra conversion features in Kotoeri don't work anymore (e.g. Convert to Related Character, which I relied on quite a bit before when trying to input characters I didn't know readings to offhand). It appears in the menu, but remains greyed out.
• The Chinese Text Conversion services now only show up contextually, and only if the text is all one or the other. Rather appreciated it when you could blanket convert all of the traditional characters in a text down or all of the simplified characters up, but now I've got to select in targeted and sometimes intermingled sections to get that same functionality. I realize that Chinese text conversion isn't necessarily as simple as 后 always equals 後 and so on, however the system under Leopard did it pretty much exactly as I needed every time.
Is there any way to fix any of the above?

Answer 1

For Chinese issues, you might want to also post in the Chinese Mac list:
http://groups.google.com/group/chinesemac/