Althought the Maltese are cute lil furballs..
I picked the Yorkie because of the same thing as above

. The white coat (that will get dirty brown in 5 minutes), and the Tear stains that are way too noticable on White.
I do prefer the Yorkie now, because I own two.. two little sweethearts! for me they were easy as cake to potty train, crate train and just got along together great.