First Leopard Complaint
I installed Leopard yesterday with an "Acrhive and Install" installation (it basically moves everything over to a /Previous System folder and then does a clean install). Everything went pretty smoothly and I'm more or less up and running as before except with the new features.
Here's my first big beef... There is a new feature to the dotmac integration that synchronizes system settings/preferences. That new feature adds a little "rotating arrows" icon to the menu bar and periodically trys to sync with your dotmac account. I don't have a dotmac account and I didn't particularly want one. HOWEVER there doesn't appear to be a way to get to the configuration options for dotmac without first entering in account information. So I ended up having to get a dotmac trial account so that I could get to the "Sync" tab in the dotmac configuration which allowed me to make synchronization only manual and to remove the icon from the menu bar. Now I'm stuck with this bogus dotmac account that I'm sure I'll be pestered to upgrade.
As I wrote this, I've uncovered a second big beef... I used a "PC keyboard" hooked in through USB to my MacBook. It appears that Apple apps like Mail, iCal, etc. no longer recognize the Backspace key as "delete on character backwards" and the "Delete" key does what it traditionally does on a PC ("delete one character forwards"). I'm gonna have to fix this (or get an Apple keyboard)...
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bcompon pointed out that you can drag an item off the menubar by command-clicking it as you drag though I suspect that it would continue to try to contact the mothership (as it appeared to be doing while it was in my menubar)
Also, the keyboard issue was mostly mine... I was using TextExtras on Tiger with custom KeyBindings that reference functionality provided by TE. Leopard's "Archive and Install" failed to preserve TE and so my KeyBindings were broken.
I was having trouble with AppleMobileSync crashing whenever I synched my iPhone...
I found the answer here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1196080
I kept hunting as well, and I finally realized that the two arrows looked much more like the isync icon than the dotmac icon. I fired up isync.app and right in the preferences was "Show status in menubar".
I do agree though, that the preference pane you can open from this items menu should have an option to hide the menubar. The problem is that they seem to have combined the dotmac and isync menubar items, but not the preference panes.