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This isn’t an exhaustive list; just the ones that bugged me today:

• Double-clicking two JPEG files at the Finder launched Photoshop CS4. But it never opened the files. I had to go back, find them again, and double-click them again. Thanks, Adobe.
• Flash CS4 should not have been released. It crashed nearly a dozen times today, usually in response to something like
• opening an existing file (under 1 MB)
• selecting all on the stage
• pasting a text box from another file
• Flash CS4 won’t let you delete an object on the stage. Not right away, at least: select it, hit the Delete key on your keyboard. Watch the object stubbornly refuse to cease existing. See the Edit menu highlight in acknowledgment that your keyboard is working. Notice the layer is unlocked (double-check that the item is, in fact, highlighted. It is.). Try this three or four times then, inexplicably, it will work. Curse Adobe for wasting more of your precious time.
• The Flash Library palette is an abomination that only looks like a standard palette: despite saving a workspace, it will always open wherever it damn well pleases.

Thanks, Adobe. I wasn’t busy trying to get any work done today.