I know something that would make me very happy is if I could reliably Publish from the Sheet Set Manager. It seems like I never had a problem with this in 2006, and ever since, it's been a nightmare. It's reached the point where I dread hitting that Publish button. I've figured out lots of tricks that help, like moving the order of layout tabs around to fix the Uninitialized Layout problem, and setting PUBLISHCOLLATE to 0, etc. But it can be a real nightmare just trying to publish a sheet set.
I just now wanted to create a DWF of one of our old jobs. After fighting with it for an hour, with crash after crash containing no error messages whatsoever, I finally gave up, and plotted each page to a DWF individually. When I plot a page to DWF, it takes maybe 2 seconds. Publish spins for 30 seconds to a minute, then I hear a bunch of dings, and the background Publish thread crashes. Of course, now I have five separate DWFs, and as far as I know, there is no way to combine multiple DWFs into a single DWF. So I guess now I'll plot each DWF to a PDF, then use Adobe PDF to create a single PDF containing all five pages. That will work for what I want.