>Another possibility would be to spawn another browser window that just had the map..

Funny you should mention that. One of my website clients wants the same sort of thing and I cant get it to spawn consistently across Netscape versions. I had to call & give them "sorry, no dice" spiel just this morning.

I do like the the sample layout though (except for color). The left frame is what I tried to do with my RoxWorld Message Boad but FrontPage doesnt organize messages by category, just tracks a category and posts them in bottom up order no matter what (yuck)