just noticed the lovely new themes available 'out of the box' ... i dont get why the calendate picker is on the right hand side of the page more often than not. its an essential navigation instrument to me when reading other people's sites and i can really do without the extra mouse travel that putting it on the right causes relative to where my shortcut pane is.
speaking of shortcut panes... you can replace the default search pane on ie with custom html. this lets you access a custom shortcut layout and favorites on the left side. using the file-system driver you can custom build the shortcut and browser home-pages from opml files.
i may just be catching on, i just dont get the calendar on the right hand side thing.