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To add my proverbial 2 cents and more:
Errors mainly bother me if they break the flow - I usually do not read so much word by word as continually - going from word to word without really touching separate words. (Not sure if that is understandable?)
When one word doesn't fit the expected pattern, it throws me out of the loop - I have to reread the sentence, trying to gather the meaning.
New idioms or lazy words (alot, btw, ...) aren't a problem for me - while "their/they're" is. (And of course, those two-letter abominations like "u" and "ur" - I actually convinced myself to never pronounce them as intended, but read them like their letters - since english isn't my native language, it works quite well - the writer then sounds like an idiot :-)
Also, the same goes for misplaced commas and the like. Again, it is mainly my personal preference I guess, but since I imagine a comma to be a "pause" of sorts, I only mind them when they break the flow, by being placed somewhere they don't belong).
(I HAVE been told I use them too often, though. So I suppose not everyone agrees with me - perhaps I'm using them all wrong?)
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