Gave up on Picasa

I just gave up on Picasa (the photo management app not the photo hosting). 2 big complaints :

- unreliable camera image import. Plugged the camera with the 1 GB SD card (around 1600 pictures) and selected to wipe the images after import. 20 minutes later into the import process, the darn thing crashes, i get no images on the hdd and about 200 images are missing from the SD card. Great, huh ? Eventually i managed to recover the images (undelete). If you find yourself into this situation.....try to see if there is a hidden Temp folder in the import path (you might find a part of the images there).
- slow. Again the import is very very slow and it has a crappy UI. It shows thumbs for each image imported in to a fixed space (no scrolling). Image what happens when you import 1000 images. It starts to resize the thumbs over and over again. And again...

Since i'm on Vista i've switched to Windows Photo Gallery (at least it has a decent importer compared cu Picasa).