Mail still shows the mailboxes on the left, even though I have changed it in Interface Builder.

I am drunk, will tell you tommorrow.

changing the nibs are a pain in the ass. there might be another element in the nib that needs to be changed that you missed. i found this out as i unsuccessfully tried to make the messages all go from left to right, not top to bottom.

Yup, the nibs are a big pain the the ass. I copied the attributes from one side to the other in the nib file. Then open mail and it still looks the same!

Talk about annoying.

Funny, I went to Google searching for "tiger mail folders right" and found this thread instantly as the first result.

I had hoped that my search would instead result in a "here's what you have to do to fix it, since it's not intuitively obvious" but it's beginning to look like designed it this way. I just can't believe it.

Did they think that at least some users would be extremely irritated by the inability to put folders on the right? Forget who wants them there and why; this is just bizarre to me. It's the kind of thing that beta testing and user testing is supposed to reveal as a horrible design change.

Oh well... hopefully someone will come up with a fix, or maybe Apple will rectify the mistake with an updated build delivered over Software Update soon. Please?