secondary click with two fingers on the trackpad option is available on my macbookpro! woo hoo!

The description in software updater describes a bit more than the article states.

It includes fixes for:

- preventing AFP deadlocks and dropped connections - saving Adobe and Quark documents to AFP mounted volumes - Bluetooth file transfers, pairing and connecting to a Bluetooth mouse, and syncing to mobile phones - audio playback in QuickTime, iTunes, Final Cut Pro, and Soundtrack applications - ensuring icons are spaced correctly when viewed on desktop - determining the space required to burn folders - iChat audio and video connectivity, creating chat rooms when using AIM - importing files into Keynote 3 - PDF workflows when using iCal and iPhoto - reliable use of Automator actions within workflows - importing and removing fonts in Font Book - syncing addresses, bookmarks, calendar events and files to .Mac - compatibility with third party applications and devices - previous standalone security updates

This is a pretty big update and touches a lot of stuff. I wonder how many more updates 10.4 will see before everything is devoted to 10.5.

Well, if things are configured correctly, 10.4 bug fixes should also be going into 10.5 at the same time, so any work in 10.4 only helps 10.5.

But, then again, I have to agree with suhail. I just wish Apple would spend a good hunk of time fixing all their current features in the OS, rather then just ignoring their software and just adding more and more new features. I mean, seriously, how hard is it to get the Finder to remember what my view options are, especially "Show folder sizes" being checked. (And that's even getting past the problem where you can't seem to define a default view for all windows, not just columns but also column sizes, the default width for size never seems to be big enough to show a full size of really large files/folders).

Q2006 crashes on launch. I've seen this reported elsewhere, after it happened to me. Proceed with caution, may want to see if Intuit or Apple comes up with a solution before updating.

Option-dragging a column separator in any columns-view window changes the default column width for all column view windows. (Individual column widths aren't retained.)

I've personally never experienced problems with Finder views as some have described. When I set a window's view with "All Windows" selected it sets the default for that view-type, and all non-customized views properly inherit it.

Unlike View Options, which are saved as you set them, a Finder Window's view-type, size, position, etc., are stored when the window is closed. The view applies to the folder last focused. This last feature causes the most headaches, because you can end up leaving a view changed when you might not have intended it. Most of the time this happens in column view, causing folders to unexpectedly take on column view.

The thing is, whenever I've sat down to test the Finder and catch it not remembering the view-type after closing a window - it always works correctly. Whenever I've used the View Options dialog it's been the same, things work as designed, and the views are retained.

So although I find the behavior slightly flawed - it's too easy to fudge views without knowing it - it seems to work as-intended.

I think it would be an improvement if you set views for windows more directly, for example by clicking a button/indicator in the window itself. This indicator button would light up if the view was different than that of the focused folder. You could then click it to keep the view, or not click it if you don't want to keep the view. Maybe you could click it again to have it revert to the default view.