You can just edit the tile.cmd in the annual folder. Just comment out line 56, and tiles won't be deleted afterwards. You can also skip the stitching altogether by commenting out line 50.

Just make sure to delete the tiles manually if you do this, or they will interfere with the next export.

The new dialog is actually better in many ways, giving you additional information that often is very helpful, as well as allowing you to easily select values and copy to the keyboard since it uses edit fields. The only issue is that it is hard to read.

If you don't like the new dialog, you can edit the SS4 menu file (ss4.mnu) in the data directory, search for DIST2 and replace it with DISTANCE. The change may get reverted the next time you install an update, bit those aren't all that frequent.

Oh, and this dialog will be improved in CC4.

Ortho doesn't like when the snap grid is a hex grid. Right click ortho, and set the grid to any rectangular grid instead of that "user hexgrid", that should fix it.

These maps are now in the atlas. Great work. Thanks for the contribution @Don Anderson Jr.

Not as far as I know.

But maybe you can work around it. One way I can think of is to combine all the individual polys into one massive one using the CONTOURSM command. This will create a single polygon that matches the complete outline of the existing ones, and you now have a single poly to use the area command on.