APS film nightmare

Where should I start.

The great quality and versatility of my Canon Elph APS camera.
The total lack of development training and equipment to get convenient use out of it.

ASP acronym (Advanced Photo System)
The ability to do lots of different things with one imprint of each image on the negative.
example you take one picture you take it in Panoramic mode. You put a date and title on it 'Happy Birthday'
Later when you want reprints Aunt Ida wants 2 4x6 prints and grandma wants 1 4x7 and you want another panoramic print for your cubicle but without the title.
After having snapped the picture once after setting the proper [yes date yes title size panoramic] you are done any of the previous options are still available to you.

WELL NO...

AND YES...

Went to Walgreen's. They informed me I had taken all 4x7 pictures. HUH???!!!@#$#@!! NOOOOO I DID NOT

went to second Walgreen's, on their computer screen I could plainly read the P C H under the various prints one letter for each print. The setting I had chosen for that shot. but once again all prints are 4x7 what??!! What about that P C and H there. doesn't that mean what I wanted.?!

the negative showed images all the same size. So the nature of the APS and the lack of properly trained APS technicians. The image on the negative is always the same that is why later you can choose to have any size printed you wish.

Anyway. I call Canon. Who says that the developers don't know what they are talking about. Try a test roll with all sizes chosen then take it somewhere else.
Alas.. Rite Aid had a machine that could read and print my film correctly.

Unfortunately because I wanted a disk they could not (without sending it out) give me a disk of my pictures unless they did it all from square one. So no disk with reprints.

On to CVS. Trying to get the whole shebang. took in developed APS film, which by the way, stays in the canister until you develop or take it in for reprints where it makes a brief appearance then back into the canister. Their machine would put my images from a developed roll onto a disc and the technician said of course it would print correctly.
Well when I went to pick up my film 4X7s - no 4x6 - no panoramic. WHERE'S MY PANORAMICS?

They are there on the negative but noone can do it all, like everyone had a piece of the puzzle but not the whole picture. All the images apear the same on the negative. Forget it. I'm done. Next time I know just start and finish at the Rite Aid that correctly ran my test roll that way I get my correct size and picture disk and one stop pics.

I do really like the camera but take a class before switching from 35mm. It's a bumpy road.