Agreed, David. While I see what was done to improve transitions, I can't tell you how much more work I've had to do adding transitions individually for long slideshows. I hate having to scroll through the list for a regular fade again every time I leave that screen.
And why isn't a regular fade available as a standard transition in preferences? I don't want a cross-fade for everything because it zooms in and out.
I also hate that, when I delete a transition, I'm left with a video remnant and I can't stretch that remnant back to it's original length. I've worked around it by combining it with the remnant - but that tends to crash the program.
Sure, PD9 does some great stuff, but the lost functionality makes editing tedious and I wish they had spent more time making better slideshow controls. What's with the high speed transitions in the first one? You can't slow it down and, at it's regular pace, you can't mentally grasp the pictures flying by.