Grace,

Design by committee is rarely efficient and at this stage is rather distracting. Having done large-scale programming in the past, I feel you are on the best track to make it functional in all aspects, followed by likely reorganization (moving controls to different tabs, renaming controls, etc.), and then gather all the ideas on appearance and making a decision as to where you take it.

If I were the programmer here, I would leave the appearance-oriented threads to develop and probably not even take the time to comment on them. It is incredibly premature--but then, appearance issues are the easiest part for most designers.

Mike