Outlook 2010: Advanced find: Icon not animated?

This barely rises to the level of minor annoyance, but...

When I use Advanced Find in Outlook 2010, the magnifying glass icon is not animated (as it was with Outlook 2003). Is there a way to change the behavior to be like Outlook 2003? Without the animation, one cannot tell if the system is doing something or not.

Outlook 2010 Advanced Find

THIS BUG IS NOT MINOR. I use Advanced Find all the time. You cannot tell if the search is working. Someone please help.

I agree it's a proper bug, more than a minor annoyance, likewise the "STOP" button is greyed out immediately even though the search is actually still in progress.
And I am shocked that subfolders cannot be searched now...? Please help Microsoft!

Has anyone found a fix to this? I've just moved back to outlook from Thunderbird and this is really annoying - I have a huge amount of emails so use the advanced search all the time, and this bug is just crazy - I can do a search and I have absolutely no idea if it's searching or finished and just not found anything. And the subdirectory thing being unchecked by default is also pretty annoying!

So is there a fix/workaround? if not where do we report it as a bug?

Filed 9/2010; last post 6/2011; no replies.
I just installed Outlook 2010 SP1 and:
(1) no animated icon, even in regular search
(2) no subdirectory search in Outlook (e.g. I can search Inbox, or Drafts, or any number of folders, but if I check the Outlook box, I get no results.

Woops - I can now check the 'Search subfolders' box (if I remember) and it will search the subfolders. But as far as I can tell, it is not 'sticky' - you have to remember to check it each time. But it does appear to search/find when you do.

So is there anywhere we can officially report this bug, rather than just moan about it here where Microsoft just ignores us?