I completely agree with you and it frustrates me to no end. But I'd be willing to bet money Apple has probably seen the feedback and they decided this is whats best for you. Sometimes the things you'd think would be the most obvious in an apple product are the least likely to be implemented. For instance, I have no way of turning off my monitor on my imac, I have to set the screensaver idle time really really low. It took them 9 versions of itunes to add the ability to "watch" a music folder, and they still implemented it the way they wanted, by just giving you one folder to drop music into. IMHO I think they are hurting themselves with this attitude, but then again, I doubt they care what I think anyway...