A lovely step-by-step guide to reporting a bug, thank you, but unfortunately you've missed out the last couple of steps that those of us who've gone through this process are familiar with:

1.  Wait for response saying it can't be reproduced and that more information is needed
2.  Supply said information

[choose one]
3a. Get response saying it's by design
3b. Get response saying it's been escalated to the product support team
    4.  Wait for response...
    5.  Wait for response...
   17.  Install next version of product
   18.  Goto 1