[sdiy] OT: Help with Eagle CAD

[Michael Ruberto]

I had been designing a bunch of PCBs with ExpressPCB until I realized I 
could save hundreds of dollars by having the boards made elsewhere and 
actually have silkscreen and solder masks too. So I am remaking all the 
ExpressPCB designs in Eagle CAD but I'm a noob with it and I can't figure 
out how to change some things I don't like. The most irritating thing so far 
is how it places the component ID and value on the silkscreen layer. When 
you put components next to each other the ID and values run together and 
become unreadable. Also, if you rotate a component it's ID also roatates 
which is very annoying because now that ID looks like it belongs to the next 
component.
Is there some way of changing where the ID sits in relation to the actual 
component like in ExpressPCB?
In the schematic mode I like to place the values of the compnents but I 
don't necessarily want them to be printed on the PCB. If I turn off the 
values in the view menu for the PCB does this mean they will not be printed 
when the PCB is made?
The autorouter uses extremely thin wires, where can I change the wire width 
it uses by default?

Besides these issues above this program is pretty decent for freeware. I 
must say though I would never pay money for it unless they did something 
about that dreadfull library - sheesh was that the best they could come up 
with?

Thanks!!!
M. A. Ruberto