Re the vertical zooming - I ran into this problem before, and confirmed in another thread. But I just tried it again now to see if I could find a workaround, and it worked perfectly. It worked whether I had auto-zoom on or off, and whether I right-clicked/dragged in the timeline or used the "spinner" in the lower right. Regardless of whether the track was selected or had the focus, it remained centered.
 
The only difference is before, I tested it on a desktop and now I tested it on a laptop. But they're both Windows 7 64-bit. The only difference I can think of is the graphics on the laptop don't do Aero, which I have enabled on my desktop.
 
 

That's odd, all of a sudden it's working perfectly fine using keyboard shortcuts, mouse+keyboard, and the Vertical Zoom control on the bottom right hand corner. I haven't changed anything in my system. So it must be an issue that's being caused by something, or it just pops up suddenly because it hasn't worked like this until now.

Or it could be that Cakewalk delivers updates in our sleep. Or maybe it's beneficent poltergeists to offset the negative poltergeists who make glitches happen. Or maybe SONAR is tied in with some universal consciousness so when it worked on my system, it worked on yours.

I say all three.
 
Guess that sums up all of my questions. If it happens again I'll just fill out a Problem Report.