General Modern Customize Home Page and Glitches

CUSTOMIZATIONS

In the General Modern Template, we'd like to have the search form be horizontal across the top, instead of vertical down the right side. Also, we'd like the country select element to default to the United States. We tried making United States the "Default" in Data Entries -> Countries, but it didn't work.

We're having issues with categories, our listings are not showing up. We locked some categories so that people couldn't post into parent categories (only child categories). Is this an issue/will this cause issues?
Is there another way to keep people from posting in top-level parent categories without locking them?

GLITCHES

1. Additionally, the All Word Search in Keywords is not working properly. It doesn't seem to work with two keywords.
2. Last thing: Image uploads in new listings don't seem to work in several Internet Explorer version 10. We click the image upload image and nothing happens.
3. Marking the Listings Page inactive seems to delete all data except for pictures from our listings and then none of links work correctly.
4. When we go to Listing Types -> Listings -> uncheck "Enable Search Form on the Search Page" -> SAVE. It removes the search form from the page, but the checkbox remains checked.
5. URL for Privacy Policy is privacy-police.html instead of privacy-policy.html



Is this product really ready for release or are we still working with a beta product?