Press shift before clicking on the object/selection you’re dragging. I don’t know the tech reason why the order matters, but it does.
The 'golden ratio bit is part of the (alignment) guides that came in with v6. They are on by default but can be toggled on off (I suspect it’s a per doc thing) via the menu View > Guides.
I’ve answered the ‘bug reports’ suggestion in your parallel thread in the ‘Meta’ sub-forum.
Feature requests, by convention are made in the ‘Off The Wall’ sub-forum (its description on the categories page does mention this). If it’s pressing or has /needs supporting detail, I’d email the idea and data directly to Eastgate.
Hope that covers all the points. 