Just installed Xara Designer Pro X 16

When a custom control bar tool bar is created and I add another icon to it - all is good. Close the program and open it again, the newly added icon is gone? So I have to add that icon over and over? How do I make Xara remember a new icon added to the toolbar?
And btw where is the custom toolbar located on my Win 7 PC ?

Toolbars can still not be saved for backup?

How do I removed whatever is blocking me from squeezing text sideways. It just scale the text and I don't want that? Like when you grab the middle handle and pull/push?

Also, how do I make Xara stop from having "snap to object" turned on at start-up? I need it turned off!

Last, how do I remove these weird kindergarten "select handles" from images and have the old type instead?

regards Helle