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Oh, Adobe Updater (the new one) how I hate thee

This is the -new- Adobe Updater that's supposed to be less annoying than the old one. Except it's a big, fat fail whale.

For the record: nothing about my installation of Acrobat is non-standard, and all the previous updates with the old updater have worked fine. I have not run any language or PPC-code stripping utilities on my apps.

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Need Mac keyboard shortcut advice!!

Can anyone tell me what the Mac keyboard shortcuts for the following are…? I haven't been able to figure them out myself, and they are the ONLY things I miss about Windows (after 10 years of using Macs)…

- Move to the top of a document
- Move to the bottom of a document
- Move to the start of a line
- Move to the end of a line

That's it!! It should be so easy, but using Apple's very cut-down keyboards, I can't figure out how to achieve it — even after Googling numerous times for it.

Apple Mail 4.1: Column arrangement doesn't 'stick' in search view

I love Apple Mail but one thing drives me nuts: the fact that displayed columns do not 'stick' when in Mail search mode.

For example, when I type anything into the search box in Mail, the search results only include the Mailbox, Status, From, Subject and Date Received columns.

Every single time I search, I always have to manually turn on the "attachments" and "size" column, which I find very useful in quickly scanning a list to find the mail I'm looking for (which is invariably the one with the large attachment).

In previous versions of Mail, I'm sure that displayed columns DID stick between searches — it is functionality that was lost in Mail for OS X 10.5, and the deficiency seems to have carried through to 10.6.

Please fix it, Apple!! (And yes, I have submitted this to Apple directly as feedback via the inbuilt Mail function for doing so, but am also publishing it here in case anyone knows a solution and can suggest it to me…!)

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