I don't have any answers but I hope the Windows 7 team do. As with you my main gripe is with dialogs that steal focus - especially ones that popup while you're

I don't have any answers but I hope the Windows 7 team do. As with you my main gripe is with dialogs that steal focus - especially ones that popup while you're typing, and only show for a split second because the focus is defaulted to a button and as you press the space bar you unwittingly 'OK' the dialog box! I'm interested to see how Windows 7 works.