Karmic Koala Netbook Remix - bugs #1

I won't bore everyone with all the details, but here are some of the defects I've observed with the Karmic Koala (9.10) Netbook Remix:

1. Installation: The first time I inserted the CD, it asked me if I wanted to upgrade to the new distribution. For one reason or another, I elected not to, but it never asked me again. Furthermore, When I tried to run Update Manager to perform the upgrade, it kept insisting I had the wrong CD mounted. The volume name != the distribution "official" name. What a pain! I had to perform a clean install of Karmic. Ubuntu scores a big fat zero on the upgrade front, for that one.
   
2. It seems to boot slower. If it gets much slower, and it will be right up there with Windows. Can't have that, can we?
3. I don't like the new login screen. Perhaps it can be changed, but take me back to the older one, in Jaunty.
   
4. Sometimes the menu applet develops "ghosts"; artifacts from other menus that show behind the current menu page at half intensity. I have tried to duplicate this reliably, but can't. To be fair, I also saw this behavior with Jaunty (9.04).
5. I figured out that the folders sub-menu works from the favorites you set up in the file explorer. Too bad you can't add other things, like the "File System" root folder that was present in Jaunty. I dunno, I liked that feature.
6. The mouse and touchpad system admin functions are separated. Fine, but touchpad admin keeps losing the settings. The touchpad keeps turning back on, and this is a big pain for me. I always use the mouse. Having the mouse move because of my clumy hands is ... well, unhappy.
   
7. I don't like the gray color of the top system area. At least before, it was colorful, and I see no reason to make it boring, again. BTW, how do I remove some of the items that appear there? I haven't quite figured this out, yet.
8. The battery time calculator is somewhat too "twitchy." When I resumed my machine after some time in hibernate mode, it said I had a really exorbitant amount of time left, then corrected itself after awhile. That said, battery life seems a tad better.
   

This list is just what I discovered via my reinstall and subsequent tweaking on Saturday and Sunday. I was already using Firefox 5.4 and Open Office 3.1, so this upgrade did not affect the apps I use most often. In general, though, I like the updated look, though in retrospect I would go back to Jaunty based on my experiences. Perhaps next time (next upgrade, I mean) I'll wait until more of the initial release bugs are fixed.