Kupotek, sry musta glossed past your question. Unfortunately I haven't found a way to activate sliders with the mouse or arrow keys.
Chumba, The zone teleporter window should be resizable, mine is
The issues you're having with the map window stem from the dropdown menus plugin. If its driving you nutz, delete plugin_4.xml and run the map updater to remove the menus. You can still select maps via the extranal MiniMap window.
The problem is that EQ2Maps isn't setup to tell plugins when the map and its icons are fully loaded or when the map changes in a multimap zone like Antonica. I wind up having to use scripts to detect what map and icon set is loaded when you open the map window. Unfortunetly it is possible to open the map window befor it's fully loaded the map and icons, which can give the plugin incorect info, causeing it to load the icon set and/or map from the last zone you were in. It can also result in the blank map image.
In most cases you can fix these by selecting the current zone/area map from the menus and hitting the set button.
In some cases (especially newer maps) the zone hasn't been added to the menus, so you can't correct a bugged map while in that zone.
Its also possible that completely new zones like Splitpaw compound these issues since they didn't exist when the plugin was last updated.
Some tips on avoiding these prbs if you choose to keep the menus:
1) Always wait a few seconds after fully zoning (camera view changes to propper angle) before opening the map window.
2) When you first log in, togle the map window open, closed, open.
3) After zoning, if the reset and set buttons are dimmed, toggle the window.
4) If you cross a map swap line with the map window open, hit the set button.
An update for the menus is planned but honestly I've been occupied with other stuff and don't know when I'll get to this. Its very complex code.