Heh.
About the notational issues and things like "a[n Ab] chord that was spelt G# C Eb", my scores are never clean unless I really need them for something (which hasn't been the case yet), and notating chords like that is finale's automatic fault, since I use a synth to write.
So I just strike the chord and it writes it. I don't pay attention to those notational things since I have yet to need a clean score for anything.
About the weirdly positioned pedal markings and stuff, QC, they're basically things to regularize playback sound, nothing else.
Rhythm division, however, is still completely alien to me. So
that could be justifiably wrong, since I know nothing about it yet.