Same here too. Particularly annoying when you've entered in your own custom name and it gets erased. Wonder if changing the other options (that are locked for us) would cause this too.
River is drawn over the ocean terrain on the cloth map:
I placed a farm on a fertile tile next to my city and it seemed to register fine and all. After a turn of building I changed my mind and canceled the construction with the idea of going back and building it later instead. However, from that point on in the game I was unable to build a farm in that city again.
Same here with the wonky scrolling. For me the Western edge of the screen has never done anything, except for the NW corner which has the effect of scrolling to the SW. The Southern edge sometimes works when I start the game up, but after a minute or two it also become unresponsive. Aside from the NW corner, none of the other corners do anything scolling wise.
Agreed. Pull down menus are almost always better because they allow you to make an informed choice without cycling through all of the options. Its the type of thing that gives the game a nice polished feel right from the start.