> Hmm.. I kind of like [sorting picklists by MRU]. But, I also wonder if something like this would just pi** me off if I was using a program for the first time.

It would have to start out alphabetized.

>> Something like this would definitely need to be tailered to the person. Maybe start out alphabetized, then reorganize to most-recently-used. BTW- the drop-down typeface selector in Word does something like this.<<

Yes, that's what gave me the idea.

As for "tailoring to the user," I agree in theory that one should be able to bring up an Options dialog that let you change as much as possible. As a matter of fact, that's the first part of an app I look at. The more options, the better. :)

But that's me, and many users either do not know such a dialog exists, or are afraid of experimenting with its options. So we can't rely on it; we do have to choose effective defaults.