I discovered a friend was using wordpress with a different view on the admin side of his site. A quick look at the codex and I too can see things a little more clearly. Wordpress is an amazing powerful tool for website administration. (Updated one site, and installed a fresh site for Mike this afternoon between on campus service calls! Nice!!)
The gist of the “Tiger Theme” is a sidebar that is cleaner, smoother coloring and is more compact. Great Theme!