If you find an alternative like you're talking about, please let me know!

Sorry nobody has told you about this sooner...

You NEED to check out BreezeBrowser. This thing blows away that crappy ZoomBrowser.

The biggest benefits are that it is MUCH faster than ZoomBrowser. It can extract the EXIF data from the RAW and JPG files into a text file. And it's very fast at doing conversions from RAW to TIF.

Check it out.