I don't gripe about Macs much, 'cause I usually love 'em to death, but this was just stupid.
If you double-click an .iso file in MacOS, it auto-mounts it like a normal virtual drive. That's exactly what it should do (and a welcome change from Windows, which pretends that it's never heard of the ISO-9660 format). This proves that Macs know what an ISO file is, and what you probably want to do with one.
Which is what makes it so annoying when you right-click on the file, then choose "Burn to DVD..." from the context-sensitive menu, and you get...a DVD with a single massive .iso file on it. One file, not the expanded image contents.
For that, you need to right-click the .iso, "Open with..." Disk Utility.app, and then click the "Burn" icon. Not so hard, except you waste a blank DVD and 10 minutes of your life when you forget and choose the "obvious" technique by mistake.
(But "eyesore," that was funny, right? iSore? No? Bah.)
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