How to disable the automatic inline hierarchy???

Yep.  I said it would were very close.  Please let us know what you think of the functionality. 

On the icons, Yes, the ones you are calling beautiful are font icons.  The others are bitmaps.   We would like all of the icons in these kinds of areas to be font icons because they scale much better and thus look better on all resolutions.  The bitmap icons are generally from an earlier time in the product.  We would like to replace the older bitmap icons.  We'll get there.