<rant>
Have they actually talked to people? I thought the point was that
Ubuntu was supposed to be friendly and usable - this is all fine if
your only target market is MacOS users, but they're likely to lose a
lot of those of us from both a Unix and Windows background, making
stupid decisions like this! Why don't they leave shoving idiot ideas
down your throat to Microsoft (it's the one thing that they're
actually good at) and stick with what people actually feel comfortable
with.
</rant>

Anyhow, thanks - I've given Ailurus a go (sounded less scary than
editing gconf, and it's done the job a treat.

Just got to see what other little surprises 10.04 has in store for me now ...

Oh, and my monitor thanks you too - now that it has a respite from
being punched out of frustration ...