Good comments, thanks.

The beauty of open source for me is I don't necessarily have to do the modifying. Someone else may have needed the same thing. But, of course, we do need an out-of-box solution, so I'm not suggesting there isn't a big place for these things. And I'll admit a lot of the PHP tweaking I've done with Mambo has been something the package should have done by default in the first place.

I'll argue with the 99.9% figure on desktop pictures, though. I notice Mac users tend to have a surprisingly high level of savvy because I think they're not afraid to mess with things, whereas Windows can punish you for tweaking some settings. (I use both, some I'm not starting a platform war here, I just think users sometimes like more control than they're given credit for -- and that could apply to some basic blog format customizations, etc., though probably not PHP scripts!)

Speaking of technical ignorance, though, I know Atom wasn't originally intended for its current use, but what do you mean when you say 'unstable'? (out of my specialization here so I'm really curious to know)

Peter