Seconded.  I have accidentally default-snoozed many alerts for this exact
same reason. The buttons should behave like regular pop-up controls, or
should be made more visually distinct.

> The notifications alert window contains three popup menu buttons.  Often I
> want to hit the snooze popup, and choose a particular delay.  But this
> control does not behave like normal OS X popups.
> 
> The normal behavior is that the menu pops up on the first mousedown.  You
> can release the mouse button, menu remains popped, you move to your
> selection, click again, and it closes.  But in the notifications alert, if I
> click on the snooze button and release, the window closes, and it assumes
> that I wanted some (short) default snooze value.  Since my fingers are
> trained to assume normal OS X popup menu behavior, I make this "mistake"
> very frequently.
> 
> Perhaps the Entourage developers consider this one-click-snooze behavior to
> be a feature.  I urge them to reconsider it.  If you want to implement a
> one-click snooze, perhaps you can provide a separate button for that,
> perhaps with an associated preference setting that determines its duration.

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