>This is probably a "no DUH" to y'all, but for some reason I'd never thought to try it here on the UT.
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>Instead of just clicking on a message in the top pane, Shift-click instead to open the message in a new window. Then you can display the whole thread for several messages at a time.

Cool. I didn't know there was a shortcut for this... you can also do the same thing by right-clicking ans selecting "Open in new window". This is IE behavior BTW- you can probably do the same thing in Netscape, but I doubt if the same key comination works.