I'm with the first submitter on this..another Tiger story -groan - although the author points on that not much is occuring at the moment.
Not wanting to sound too happy, but I'm experiencing none of the aforementioned problems highlighted here. Spotlight has indexed and runs fast (i have a quick machine admittedly). Safari is ok and still quick (still into firefox myself) but the RSS still doesn't compare to NetNewsWire. iTunes connected first time on fresh install to the home stereo. Widgets are okay as well, but obviously in the early days of development - 3 months from now someone will be writing a round-up article on the 'must-haves'. As for crashing applications - which ones? Adobe, Macromedia, Cinema and MS Office all work fine for me, plus the multitude of other apps I use regularly...Although I do have one gripe, Entourage (or the Exchange / Win2k (LDAP) server at work) has trouble remembering my LAN password. (If anyone has or knows of a fix for that I'll be a pig in..stuff.) Scooby.
Forget about the niggles or do a comepletely fresh install including applications.
Apple Fix Tiger: Waiting for 10.4.2