seriose lisp programming

How/what libs?
Mainly sockets and SDL stuff.
Please tell me i can use these in scheme. I don't want to read steeles book on common lisp it's huge ;_;
currently i am using MIT/scheme.

passing too many arguments
Huh? WTF do you mean?

writing iteration and such explicitly
What's "and such"?
BTW: learn scheme

clobbering the variable namespace with functions
idiot. one could also argue about #'
why don't you prepend all your function names with f_? Then you have something that resembles #'. And you don't even need funcall

And a lack of straightforward macros
Not standard, but almost every implementation has it

The lack of something CLOS-like is alwas not very good, with that I agree.