ha, that made me a laugh a bit, I remember stumbling upon the giant meters one time too
okay, here's one: back when I was an intern for a big studio, I swear I saw a guy get little channel faders for each channel on the PT edit window. Is that possible or am I just nuts? I guess I might have been seeing aux send faders or something (I disable that view), but I swear I remember him mixing from the edit window on little kickass faders...