Karavite, I'm going to give you possibly the best advice that anyone has given you on this thread thus far:
Give it up.
Seriously. You don't seem to be listening to anybody's arguments, or letting them punch through your "mental fog" and consider what people are saying.
Mac OS X is nothing but 1's and 0's arranged via a programming language (probably C++, standard) and a compiler to do what it does so well. As with any combination of 1's and 0's, shit happens. Stuff breaks down, stuff runs into other stuff, stuff causes problems. Let's take it back to the car analogy, since it's so easy:
Sure, you may own a Mercedes, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. Mercedes cars are expensive to maintainwhich means that they still require routine maintenance, and even costly repairs. Even if nothing happens to your Mercedes, that doesn't mean you won't have to wash the car every 3 weeks, change the oil every 3,000 miles, and change the timing belt every 30,000 miles. And even when you're out cruising in your clean, well-lubricated Mercedes, you might go up a steep hill (like the Grapevine near Los Angeles) at high speed with your AC on and blow out your engine.
Of course, you might make all the preventive maintenance keep your car in top shape, and drive like your grandmother, and some asshole in a Microsoft Taurus may come careening through an intersection, running the red light, and smash into your clean, well-lubricated Mercedes, causing body damage or totalling your car. You did nothing wrong, but you ran into a software conflict with one of the other programs on the road, leading to great expenses and headaches with the hospital, repair shop, and insurance company.
Apple is a hardware and software company just like any other, and while they typically have the best support and product in their market, they make mistakes and fuck up from time to time. It's just a fact of life that nobody can control. Yes, it would be nice if you could get something running after paying $300 in support, but no system, by definition, is ever perfect. If you know someone who's having problems, then by all means give that person a hand in solving those problems. However, not everybody knows an expert to turn to, and that's just part of life. You can't expect every Mercedes owner to know a car expert to ask about problems before spending $2000 on repairs.
I think you could take all the posts you've made in this thread and bind them into a book called "Logical, Yet Irrational Thoughts." Yes, that's right: your arguments are perfectly logical, but you're being completely irrational by getting so worked up about this. Yes, it should work, but it doesn't always work: that's just human nature. I mean, I installed 10.2.3 on my iMac expecting it to work, and it didn't, the Finder kept quitting whenever I tried to click on anything, so I downgraded back to 10.2 and I haven't upgraded since. But I don't complain that Apple's updates always have problems for some people, even if they may work fine for others.
So enjoy your Mercedes, enjoy your Mac, and enjoy the quality of support that Apple actually provides. It should be a perfect world, but it's not, and that's just something that you have to accept before moving on with your life.
