I don't know if you're aware of this, but you can change the way Live does certain things by adding an options.txt file on your preferences folder, with certain text strings.

You can find the preferences folder the following way:
1. Go to Live's "Help" menu.
2. Choose "Get Support".
3. Click "SHOW the preferences folder" (at the right).

This is not documented at all, and i wish it were, but for now, here are 3 strings that you can use to solve some issues.

If you have trouble automating Guru in Live 8,  add the following string to the file:

-_PluginAutoPopulateThreshold=-1

With this option enabled, Live will always populate the plugin parameter list with the first 128 parameters of a plugin. Note that this is a global setting, i.e. it affects all plugins.

One other thing you can add to options.txt. If you have missing files on your set and live's search is coming up empty, even though you know the files exist, try adding this:

-_RelaxFileManagerSearch

If you want plugins to be able to accept keystrokes and Live is "stealing" them, add this:

-_EnsureKeyMessagesForPlugins