Recent Activity does really need fixing.
I've made a small start on a solution here (note this file is in CVS): http://moodle.org/course/recent.php?id=5
See also http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1992
Obviously there would be menus etc up the top.
General developer forum
Improvement to Recent Activity
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