Hi operaguy. I always try to make CP as useable and user friendly as possible and if you follow the CP Passport Forums you'll see that when users make valid sugestions/complaints about site operations myself or my assistant make every effort to accomodate those changes. Not a day goes by that I don't change cp to improve its ui and operation. Case and point. If you find the leftbar gets in your way and don't like it, I've added a link to the bottom of it to hide it. Just click "<< Hide This Bar". As for the product detail images, I added the instruction to click the thumbnails for a larger copy and have now added an extra description to the larger image that it can be clicked for a full size version. Also, as a rule of thumb anything your mouse cursor changes to a hand you it means the item is linked and you can click on that item. I hope the changes help, -Ry