Various Lion problems

I bought a new MBP after Christmas loaded with Lion. I transferred all my files from my older MBP and started to work. I bought the Thunderbolt to VGA adapter to use with a second monitor. Various problems have occurred. None are fatal. All are annoying.
1) Occasionally the second monitor blanks out. It goes black for several seconds, then returns. Usually, I am playing Zuma's revenge.
2) Spotlight has gone crazy. When I click on Show all in Finder, I get what looks like half the files in the computer. The option to show only Filenames makes no difference. I have gone to preferences and selected only a few items to show, but it shows email contents, which I don't want, and tons of irrelevant files.
3) Occassionally, the computer will not accept clicks on windows. It will not respond to cmd-W to close a window. Frequently, I have to use the Activity Monitor to quit a stuck application.
4) Use Seamonkey as my browser and email client. It will freeze occasionally.
5) The gestures don't work half the time. Sometimes I get a gesture I didn't ask for. I am sure my very dry fingers don't trigger things consistently, but this is behavior makes most gestures useless.
When these hassles are not acting up (about 95% of the time), the computer is a joy to use.
I'll stop here. Looks like Lion needs a round of upgrades.

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