Just a thought, here...

I notice when you have the chat open and alt+tab off to do other things (like actual work :P ), it will regain focus when anything is posted, be it a comment or announcement. Is there any way to modify it so that it only regains focus on the announcements?

EX:
sike and thedawg are discussing fuel pressure and you're more interested in ice cream sandwiches. You decide to leave the chat open and do some other stuff, but you don't want it popping up everytime sike says something about only seeing 45psi at 5lbs of boost. You minimize the window, but now it doesn't pop up when anything happens, so someone comes in, asks you something about ice cream sandwiches, and you totally miss it.

If the chat would regain focus on the desktop when announcements were made, you would always know when people logged in, left or got the boot.

Just an idea. Doesn't really matter, but it's an idea...