Martin: You can almost get what you want by setting the view options for all windows in icon view to "Show Icon Preview" and then push the icon size slider up to 128 pixels. You can do this on a per-window basis too if you want; Finder should remember your window preferences if you close and reopen the window when it's in the state you want. I agree this should be better. It should be smart enough to know image files from other files etc. Hopefully the new quickview in Leopard will fix this.

Guns: I completely agree about the Enter key ...

Paully: I agree about the iCal sharing. The only workaraound I managed was to symlink the iCal folder in the Shared user folder so that multiple users can share and edit the same calendars (so it's all calendars or no calendars. Still, it has worked OK for me as each user can just switch off the calendars they don't want)

I wish Address Book would allow multiple users on the same computer to share an address book but retain their own "Me Card". Surely it's very common for multiple users of a single comuter to have shared friends or family (or business contacts) I can set this up with .Mac as a subscription, but the users who subscribe to my address book can't use autofill in Mail so it is not a very useful database. The symlink won't work with Address Book as it doesn't like it when it is edited by more than one user.

Both iCal and Address Book (and Safari bookmarks) should allow users to access and edit a shared database and their own private data. Even my seven year old DECT home phone can have a shared phone book for the network and a per-handset private phonebook.

It seems that a lot of the whines here do have fixes but I'm sure most would agree they shouldn't need fixes or the solutions should be more obvious (better documented). Many of the whines though, are real flaws with no apparent solution (mounted volumes in Finder being disconnected etc.)