i meant to mention this:
if you set opacity to 0, so that its completely invisible,
then you dont see that "barred" sign
and you can treat it like a purely reserved area of normal desktop.

i will look into making multiple areas without having to run sep copy.

i may make a application launch-like tool at some point so those ideas about drag and drop  could be useful for that.

this is a bug; i will try to fix in next version.
The way it works now is it tries to check your start menu "Startup" group.
If it finds itself there, it checks the box, if not the box is unchecked.
When you check the box it adds itself to start menu "Startup" group.

SO, if your seeing the box checked each time you start it, it means its somehow not removing itself from your start menu "Startup" group the way it should be.  for now you can just delete the shortcut manually fromt he startup group in start menu.

there are some tricks to making url snooper work with dialup; search that http://p084.ezboard.com/fstreemeboxvcrfrm4 forum or winpcap site.
and let us know if you get it to work.