dear ewein,
I wholly agree with you on orientate - an ugly word. Another similar word that I encounter is preventative. I am happy with taking a preventative, but not when the word is used in the sense of taking preventative action, when preventive would do equally as well. These are nearly as bad as that awful redundancy "at this point in time". My feelings there are so strong, I actually hammered the keys in typing it!

dxb.