5 issues with the 2.0 RC

Hi,

I just started playing around with 2.0 release candidate on Windows 7 (love the new look by the way), and I've come across five potential issues, listed in the order of how important they are to me personally.

1. Selecting a range of notes seems to have gone from 2-dimensional to 1-dimensional. What I mean is that in 1.3, I could select a note, then hold shift-right or shift-left to select additional notes on the same staff, and also hold shift-up or shift-down to select the same range of notes on multiple staffs. In 2.0, it seems I can only go left or right. Is there a new way to extend range selections to multiple staffs?

2. I understand that with the release of 1.0, the default key for entering rests changed from 'space' to '0', and I understand the reasoning was to be consistent with other similar software. However, I am accustomed to using 'space' to enter rests, and I was able to set that option in 1.3, but I no longer remember how. Is it still possible in 2.0, and how can I do it?

3. The Open File dialog that appears when using the File->Open menu command doesn't seem to remember its folder location, and just goes back to its default folder every single time I use it. Is there a way to make it remember it's current location?

4. It seems like the soundfont for choral voices plays back a few cents flat in 2.0. Am I crazy, or has anyone else noticed this, too?

5. Am I wrong, or in the instrument selection were all the orchestral string parts (Violins 1, Violins 2, Violas, etc.) replaced with a single String Section instrument? Not a big deal by any means, but it's a bit of a pain to have to manually change clefs and staff names every time a create a new score, and I guess I don't understand the value in having a reduced instrument selection.

Thanks for creating such an awesome product!