So the time has come where I have to use Lotus Notes for email on the Mac. 

The company uses the centralised data base & all its features for security. 7.2 is a visual slug, everything it does is java based & therefore slows visually. If only there were a way to make the operation of it slicker. Notes 8 has the outlook visuals, but its all just too hard. I am, as is the rest of out organisation .. in pain over this. The reason is that we have been absorbed into the bigger comanys collective