[MysticLlama]

On the interface stuff, I feel it's kinda like moving to Office 2007. If you give it a fair shot and try to relearn using it as intended, it is better in some ways.

The W7 search bar on the start menu works so much better than Vista, which itself was a huge improvement over XP that it's useful now. I resisted using it for a long time too, but I'm starting to find it very handy.

Also the shortcuts and such in the open dialogs are a little funny at first, but instead of resorting to doing everything manually like I'm used to, I've actually made some custom shortcuts and they show up in the right places to be useful.

Also on the taskbar, being able to shuffle things around, and having a useful preview are really nice, and the jumplists are a great feature that speeds things up.

Even with all the changes, I still can't quite follow where the big gripes with the interface are, you still can to everything the old way for the most part, but maybe I'm missing something? I don't think it's near as shocking as the Office 2003->2007 interface change.