too much too soon

i realized as i was walking home yesterday how much i do not like the new aol im interface. the newest one is aol aim triton. sorry about the flash in the link. i know that they're trying to revamp the interface and add new features, but i just have had an adverse reaction to it.

some of the things that i have issues with:

• when you install the software, it uses flash to show you the status of the install. to me, it feels a lot like the ad-ware that has all the bells and whistles.
• it's different enough from the old interface to annoy me quite a bit.
• the location of the "away" messages is in a different place. it was hard for me to notice that it was directly above my buddy list b/c the color did not stand out. it was also hard to notice b/c they began to tie the display with your screen name with the status of your chat.
• i find it more cumbersome to create new away messages
  
• they started using tabs in the im boxes. now, when you chat, all your chats show up in a tab, much like gaim. it was hard for me to notice when someone was im-ing me b/c the change in the icons were on the side and not directly where my focus of attention is.
• it was harder for me to locate how to change my user preferences.
• they started adding a lot of features that i thought was too much--e-mail, video, video chat, etc.
  

despite my rant, i understand how hard it is to introduce a new interface. i'd just prefer a smoother transition between the old and the new. maybe a better idea would have been to keep a lot of the old features in the same place and have a similar layout as the old aim. perhaps i'm just getting old and being too critical. if you have aim triton, let me know what you think.