Arch Linux

I just finished installing the http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/iso/test-usb/archlinux-2009.01-1-ftp-i686.img using a USB stick on my EEE.
The http://dev.archlinux.org/~aaron/archiso/archlinux-2009.01-ftp-i686.img i tried yesterday didnt work, cause of the USB bug.
Taking into consideration that the new ISO worked, i guess the bug is fixed there.

I created new filesystems from sratch using EXT4 on all of them. I created 3 primary partitions. A / , a swap, and a /home.

Some observations/annoyances call them whatever you want.

1) Despite the fact that the time is actually set twice during the procedure, my system wouldnt boot in correct time.
I always use UTC as time setting cause i dont use anything other than linux.
When i was thrown into to console to set the timezone, in the end i got informed that accrding to localtime time is now : $correcttime.
According to UTC time is now: $correcttime -2 hours.
Then when the installer leaved the console to go back into the dialog menu to set the date, and again verify current time which showed the correct time.
When i booted into my newly installed Archlinux system the time was $correcttime +2. I didnt change the USEDIRECTISA setting in rc.conf, i left it to the default no.
Two notes:
a) I would prefer the timezone setting to be done inside the installer dialog instead of dropping to console.
b) The only Archlinux ISO that i was able to boot into a system that used a correct time by default is the 2008.12 ISO made by tpowa.

2) Package selection:
I noticed you too talked about it on the mailing list about the none appearing for packages in core, but not member of any group.
Would it be possible to use 3 seperate menus for a) base b) base-devel c) rest of core instead of 1 containing all 3?
In that case the group doesnt need to be visible at all. Just a "Select packages from {base,base-devel,core} title or similar.

3)IIRC correctly the 2008.06 ISOs moved the selection for timezone and clock setting (UTC/localtime) automatically to rc.conf along with the network settings.
If thats possible, i would like that back.

4) The installer adds an entry on top of pacman mirrrorlist containing the mirror used for installation.
BUT the entry is the following: eg. Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/i686
If you leave the mirrorlist file without altering it during configuration of /etc files in the ISO, when you boot to your newly installed system, you alway get an error message about not being able to retieve db, or packages extra or other than core repos from the mirror you used during installation.
I wonder if the entry used by the installer could change to eg. Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/$repo/os/i686

Other than that the installer works great. I name this a feature request while its actually a bit of all types :)