iTunes 9: App Management

mine doesn't work i need help i have the ner itunes but somthings wring is it possible to like turn it on or something

That's all great, but WHY does everything have to be white now? Because of the 'Snow' in Snow Leopard? Ugly. And WHY do they have to move the artist selection to the left? It was just fine on top.
I don't get Apple's new definition of consistency. No 64-Bit iTunes, no widescreen mail but widescreen iTunes (that's just stupid, name, artist and album next to each other take up much more space than an email, yet they decide to not take it to mail, but iTunes?), base 10 in Finder but not in Terminal and the rest of the OS, the new glossy look that's iTunes only (and pretty hideous too). Just stupid. It's like those publishers who publish series of books, but change the cover design of it 5 times in the process, so instead of having a unified look on your shelf you have 5 different covers for the same series of books. Just plain stupid.

iTunes is still 32bit.. you would think they would upgrade it to 64bit for SL

If I uncheck an app in iTunes will it not sync to my iPhone but remain in my iTunes? I have a few apps I bought, don't use, and would just like to store in iTunes without having them on my iPhone.

Is it me, or is there no way to back up ones app organization. If I wipe my phone for whatever reason do I have to go through the arduous task of re-app organization?

2 ancient failures still not fixed, and a change in functionality.

The annoying as hell ANCIENT failures:
Changing playlists changes the pause button to stop.
Scroll wheel volume control only works over the volume slider in mini view, scrolling on the rest of the window does nothing.

Change:
Maximising from normal view changes the window size, it doesn't
switch back to mini player view. This is diabolically annoying. I want to switch back to iTunes 8 immediately cos of this.

I like iTunes 9 thus far, but there are some oddities in the iPhone syncing now (I updated to iPhone OS 3.1 as well):

1) My applications were listed correctly in the list of apps, but the management screen was completely wrong about where the apps are. It took 4 syncs before this populated correctly. Weird.

2) It removed my synced photos. So I re-enabled Photos, and picked the events again, but now there is no way to sort them yourself. Its alphabetical only. In iTunes 8.x you could drag the event up and down in the list.

3) It de-slected syncing my iCal info. Again, a simple checking of the box fixed it, but its still odd.

4) The volume control is backwards. The dark portion is on the right as being de-selected. I can kinda see how that would make sense (darker is the void, etc), but the progress bars immediately to the right work the traditional way (darker progress replaces the lighter color void). Not a big deal, just looks wrong.

The Home Sharing works awesome though. I love that.

Is it 64bit???

Compared to developing a way of having folders like Categories, this seems like something of a gimmick. "21,178 entertainment apps, but we don't seem able to give you a way of installing more than 0.75% of them properly."

Any idea how non-Apple software icons (Cydia, or the great CallMe) are being handled?