I check the commics as a start to my day. I noticed that the Garfield page changes the pointer to, what else, Garfield.
This gets me to ponder if we should consider doing likewise to give the user a clue that they are on a modal form per say?
Here is the site.
http://www.garfield.com/comics/pages/Let me know what you think about changing the mouse for a specific intent.
__Stephen