Threading woes

[Andrew Conkling <andrewski fr st>]

Well, now that I've settled into using Balsa (and themed the icons!), I've  
noticed that the threading is often counterintuitive or counterproductive.   
For example:
The status of threads is preserved through the session, but is not saved on  
exit.
When a new message is put in an existing (open) thread, that thread is  
closed.
Opening a multi-level thread means opening each message; it seems more  
useful to have the entire thread open when the first message is expanded.
And, of course, there's that hard-to-squash bug with the last thread in a  
list....

Is there any way to fix any of these, or are they just shortcomings in GTK?

Thanks,
Andrew