convoluted product titles and unnecessary re-creations

I have a few questions regarding the idea of customers customizing their own products.

Lets start with an example. Let's say I have a product called Computer (its SKU is comp01). It then has the following attribute choices:

Memory, 1GB or 2GB (SKU = mem1gb or mem2gb)
Hard Drive, 80GB or 120GB (SKU = hdd80gb or hdd120gb)

Now, a customer comes to the site and selects the Computer product. They are taken to the customization screen where they then select 1GB of memory and a 120GB hard drive and then add this custom product to their shopping cart.

At this point I am faced with two issues:

1. Assuming I am using SKUs as the title, the shopping cart now shows a product called "comp01mem1gbhdd120gb x 1". Is this the intended functionality or is something amiss? I would prefer that the shopping cart simply say Computer x 1 (or at least something as simple) but obviously still contain the selected attributes, so that when they check out they are still actually purchasing a computer with 1gb of memory and a 120gb hard drive. Does this make sense?

2. When a custom product is added to the cart (presumably by a customer) it in turn actually creates a new product which can be seen in the products page. So, from the example above, a new product would be created called "comp01mem1gbhdd120gb". Again, is this the intended functionality? I would rather this didn't happen.

Perhaps, I have misunderstood the use of this module, but if you could please clarify these issues for me I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank You,

J.C.