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As a general rule, I do not like combined cues. I don't care if that means we get five cues that are 30 seconds long.
Now, if the cues fit, as the Challenger piece with the Main Titles from "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" (Intrada) and another pairing of two cues that I can't recall the names of from "Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend" (also Intrada), I can accept it. EDIT: I should add those two examples gives a second or half second between cues so you can edit them apart if need be.
But the real evil is crossfades. Especially crossfades that cut off parts of openings and closings, leaving a owner unable to seperate the cues (more damning if the score has never been released before so you can't even get an older release); and crossfading unrelated cues -- especially ones that don't go together at all.
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We'll get essentially two camps responding on this.
One group wants each individual segment of music as heard or written for the film, both to hear all of the music and as Justin notes to pick favorite cues for individual order and preference.
The other group wants a more musically satisfying representation of the score, and typically we (yes, I'm one of these) don't care as much about strict chronology or cross-fades, especially if the cross-fades were built into the score by the composer (which is often the case, because many times music doesn't so much end as stop in movies).
So I don't recall ever being unhappy with combined cues, and I only sometimes care about whether they are even from different parts of the movie. I'm more interested in a satisfying musical whole, and a lot of short cues is not usually as musically satisfying when you're going for the whole effect.
EDIT: I stand corrected, as The Thing has shown. It doesn't have to be all one or the other. And I do agree that the combining should make sense, but the jury is still out on that. I loved John William's segues in the original Star Wars OST, but just recently someone else said one didn't make sense at all, so there you go. (Zimmer is great at creating suites, one of the best.)
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Annoying as fuck. I'm looking at you, Sum of All Fears. Combining 14 Months / The Deal was a big mistake.
Goldsmith was good at writing short cues. Have faith in them, don't bung them all up cuz you're worried about too many brief cues.
This is why I love the complete Total Recall. "The Implant" and "Secret Agent" are two superb short cues that can stand on their own.
If it was an original album edit that Goldsmith made while he was alive (which were usually seamless) then I get it, but c'mon. Don't try to reproduce those now by guessing what he would have done. Not cool, bruh.
Thankfully, it looks like Intrada for the most part have figured this out.
I stand with The Mutant on this, as everyone knows from my past complaining (which I stand by, especially in the case of Falling Down and The Fugitive, but there are others...oh yes, there are others...). At the end of the day, it has to sound musical. Some of the combined cues serve no musical purpose.
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YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
"jAMES bOND aSTRONAUT- cOUNTDOWN FOR BLOFELD"
is a great example
brm
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I prefer individual cues 90% of the time, even if they're only a minute or less long. 
