Hi-jacking your post, you mentioned about turning boxes on. This brought up something in my memory that I had suggested in a blog post earlier. I was wondering, could we maybe have 5 or so, blank boxes that we could use to store information. For example, I could have my favorite links box sitting under my favourite games. I could have this is a post, but as I make new blog entries, that previous post would move down and people would be less likely to read it.
I know there might be a few problems with abuse, but I'm still optimistic.
Do it yourself with CSS.
.whatever { display: none }