>Personally - never saw a need for the dashboard
>(1) Time warp ? I can click on today's messages
>(2) Monitor on-line users - I don't need to

I use time warp a lot. At times I close the browser, or refresh UT, or open it in another window, and it marks the messages as read... and then I see a reply to some messages I didn't really see, so I warp a few hours back, or even a day or two. The links in the upper pane are duly marked as seen or not, and I find what I missed.

On-line users I also have disabled; that would be nice to use in some cases, but for me these are few. However, the other things on the left (folders, replies, private messages) open up with links to things I may use more frequently. I find it convenient to have them - specially replies to my messages, which appear as links I can click individually, without opening the whole list as appears if I click on the replies icon in the top row.