Yes, I think so. The reason I don't like it being fixed there is because I need something else above it, so being a widget I could move it further down the sidebar, or it could be left off if somebody doesn't want it. None of the main IPB applications have anything like that, the sidebar is available to be used however somebody wants. Yes, just like the Gallery page - I think that would look great so that "media" type applications have the same look & feel. In the admin section you could have checkboxes for the blocks the user wants on the main page ie. Categories, New, Featured - perhaps with the abilty to change sort order. Then if somebody has loads of categories they can choose whether or not they want to show them or not, if they like how it looks or not. Another option could be to allow user to feature either videos or categories, so if they have a lot of categories they could just choose the main ones they want to feature.