Increasingly frustrated with randomly changing textures

I just spent about 45 minutes painstakingly texturing something I'm working on. When I was all done and had it the way I like it, I selected the entire object to rename it and put it into my inventory. WHAM! The entire object, all 50-some prims reverted to the last texture I had used.

Can I get my 45 minutes back? Or better yet, can this bug that I've brought up in the forums a couple of times, and submitted bug reports on several times every be addresses or even acknowledged by a Linden?

I've experienced this too when recoloring things... something is JUST so unintuitive about the way it works. I can't quite put my finger on it yet, but I've known times where I made the mistake of not checking the box to edit linked parts, and then I made the whole, many-primmed object solid green or pink and I was like "NOOO!"

Isn't there some way the system can detect that you're about to change many textures to a single one, and send a warning popup to you, asking "ARE YOU SURE???"

Or better yet, the UNDO command should work for this. True to its name.

the curse of "apply texture immidiatly and then clicking on a large linked thing BAM" bye work, or another of my fav , color picker, cancel, bam back to 1 color on everything, ;_;

It's definately the apply texture immediately box being checked.

Torley's idea of a confimation box if the change would effect a certain number or more prims would be awesome. I wouldn't mind fixing 5 prims, but 56 prims, multiple sides getting different textures, is just a pain.