Since I've been using both Linux and OSX, I've been noticing a very annoying problem with the way the terminal runs in OSX... I already had to figure out how to use it to run applications from the terminal, since originally I hadn't known about the guide here... (i wasted about 4 hours getting that to work...)

The next thing I think is somewhat annoying... In Linux, on the right-click menu, there is a command for the various window managers that lets you 'Open Console in this Directory' or something like that, cant remember right now. Is there anyway to add this to the control click menu of OSX?

You can easily open folders and various hidden directories by using the open command, but I would also like for this to work the other way around, so that I can easily go from GUI to Terminal, back to GUI.

If anyone can help me out, please let me know.

Hello, you should try RunCommander app.
You can find it at http://home.insightbb.com/~sonpreach/
You can run Unix commands on from the menu bar, I hope this helps.

Regads,

I know almost nothing about cocoa programming, and even less(none actually) about writing contextual menu items, but I would guess that it's fairly simple... anyone with experience could write a decent one in a weekend I'd guess... all it has to do is to get the path of the current directory (the system might do that for you) and then have applescript cd to it in the terminal... I'm sure there's other ways, but that's an easy one...