1) You enabled the capability of perspective, but now you actually need to select it from your map view. When you are in the map view, push the navigation knob to bring up the map menu. Then select Map View (I think-- I can not remember), and you should see the choices like "Travel Direction," "Pointing North," and "Perspective." Select Perspective.

2) It sounds like you have a bad map disk. Switch to an original, authentic Navteq map disk. The MKIV is extremely sensitive to map disk copies. DVD copies will often cause the MKIV to lockup or be slow.

3) The GPS-Navigation menu selection will usually take me directly to the map view, but it depends on what I was doing previously. If I had the map view up, and then select something like DSP or Telephone from the main menu. The next time I select GPS-Navigation, it will go back to map view.

4) I am not sure I understand this question. When you do a PoI search, it will return a list of matching PoIs sorted by the nearest first. Then, you just click on the one you are interested to select it, and go from there.

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