>If the UI could be driven in larger part from self-contained code
>it would take out a lot of those variables.

Mmm, I can understand wanting a greater degree of control of the UI's destiny... Sounds like a tough decision on the cost-benefit front though - somewhat abstract payoff in return for quite a lot of hard work (plus the opportunity cost). I guess if MoI's codebase is fairly well separated into edge and core segments and the UI portion doesn't much interpenetrate the core stuff it might not be such a burden?

Dan