One idea I have is to keep most of the same configuration settings pages that we have in 1.5 but put them under one set of tabs (perhaps two or three rows deep) at the top of the page. Another is to have some sort xtree-like browser on the side to access them all.
Anyone got any good ideas or examples of other systems that do this well? To save you time, the icons of Cpanel and PHP Nuke are not what I would call good examples.
It has to scale well (Moodle people love options).