Grym, I may work up an alternate version of the Knowledge window at some point. Not on the top of my list though
Not gonna cram more stuff into the default Compass and the DynamicData for loc is slow to update. If someone else wants to toss up an Add-on for this, have at it.
WindowShades were added to most windows in 3.4, including the Journal.
Chumba, sounds like you have the dreded Chat window bug reported to result from a corupted serversettings.ini. Someone posted a file that supposedly fixes the prob over on the Classic support page. Deffinetly not an issue with the UI.