@Tom: TextEdit can save plain text. You can set that in the preferences

@all keyboard junkies: I bound the go-to-menu-bar function to ALT + SPACE. It is much faster than the predefined CTRL + F2 and I actually like it more than the windows pendant (as the letters are aiming at different menu points depending on the app and sometimes different menu entries get the same letter).

@the no-dragging-to-hidden-apps-in-the-dock-problem: Start dragging, hit ALT + TAB, drag on the app you want the stuff to be (try this on a windows system ;-) now my whinings (mostly duplicates of already mentioned):

• disconnected network drives paralysing the system
• top-bottom extending selections in Finder iTunes and elsewhere (I can't imagine how this could be considered a good idea in the first place - it just feels plain wrong)
• I'd love a keyboard way to extend selections non-consecutive (as command clicking with the mouse). You can do that in windows with holding ctrl and hitting space for each item you'd like to add to a selection
• and the one and only point windows is actually better than OS X: The WINDOWS + D shortcut which hides all windows and gives focus to the desktop. I can hide windows in OS X with Exposee but I'm not on the desktop (I have an applescript workaround for that but it should be build in - btw: Quicksilver rocks!)

Mostly minor flaws (isn't that what whining's about?). Other than that I'm quite happy with the mac ways.