In reply to Mike.

I agree too. Though I can't say I have actually written new widgets (how?) but the existing ones give me so much power over page layout. I can even save page templates for other sites! It has saved me hours of manual CSS and given me design options I would never have considered. As for content lockin? Unreasonable to expect this to be perfect. If you deactivate then you're in for a lot of work to re-layout anyway, so cut and paste your content to new pages beforehand. Better still stick with it, you won't regret it.