Meh. It's been done. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/

That's exactly what I did. When I turned on Priority Inbox, it turned off the Multiple Inboxes, but now I have the equivalent of three inboxes -- Important & Unread, Starred, everything else. But the duplication is removed (previously, starred messages showed in both inboxes).

All my rules still work. but if something is also caught by Priority flag, it goes to the top. If I read it and don't archive it, it moves to Starred or Everything Else based on whether my filters had starred it in the first place.

Looks useful so far. We'll see. I may redo some of my star filters to flag for priority instead.

I can also see this working as part of a GTD system -- it's sort of Action, Follow Up and everything else. But not quite. Still needs some tweaking for that to work right.

There's an xkcd for that.

And imagine the teens' surprise and horror when they discover their parents aren't "sleeping" at all...

It's just Computrace.. Don't worry -- it will come back on its own.

If there's an ouch there, those of us with the Pro version aren't seeing it.

It's on my other monitor?

Nope, that's email and Trillian.