>Essentially I wanted to do the reverse of the "map from this message". IOW, go back a few messages to reclaim the gist of the current conversation.

Well, there's a lot of variations we could do here.

So far, what I can tell, which would be good, is to allow a member to check an option in the accont to open the reply in a new window. Default would remain but the option would be there. So, that would resolve that issue.

As for rest, keep those suggestions coming, we'll consider them all in the Task Tracker.