Shoutbox

I too would love this feature back along with changing tabs to the new message when you don't have the tabs up, but I think it took a lot of work throughout the betas last time and Patchou may not want to commit that much time just.  He may add more adventurous features like this later however and may also base it on the new tabbed chat feature in Yahoo! messenger for Vista (which I believe is still in its beta stages itself).