hmmm... the purpose of THIS page right here, is to show me the messages in this thread. in my opinion. the rest is just extraneous. now each page needs some naviational stuff, true. the top and side menus i can deal with. okay, it needs ads. i don't see the banner ads (sorry), so i don't care about them. i also confess i don't use the forum annex, but the faq and stuff is interesting and important. the question is, am i going to want to click on that while i'm reading/replying to a message? no. unless the message is about something in the annex (a challenge or faq topic), in which case the message can include a link to the annex. now, when i'm done reading/replying to a message, and i'm looking for another thread to read, or when i first get here and peruse the thread topics, maybe i'll want to jump to the annex. so, in my opinion (and others' obviously), the annex box serves a purpose on the main forum page, but is annoying and in the way on the message pages. thus the suggestion to have it only appear on the former. how hard that would be to code into the site, i have no idea.