no thats not correct, whenever you press this button within a folder window you go ONE folder up, not back or anything else - its 1 folder up. Same for most Linux IDE's and I believe also in MacOs but I am not certain for the mac.
lolo you can use the icons on the desktop for specific folders ahah. check my desktop i have Clean Up folder with randon shit that needs to be cleaned and a To Do folder.. Also.. that pedobear icon (which i also did) is for lulz related material.
Maybe the folder where you are trying to import from contains accentuated letters. I couldn't import fbx files too because of this. To get around this issue, I made an import folder to inside UDK folder, and I save every fbx files to there now.
Don't put them in Allegorithmic path hierarchy folder, that path is only for program defaults. you should have a list of folders above that, something like "User\Documents\Substance Painter\shelf\" and in there there's a folder called "materials" - that's where you put custom or downloaded materials.
Everything about Vista screams OSX. The searching from folder to folder is the same. The Dock is the same. You mean they expanded the quickstart bar functionality?