I agree with the thread starter. It may be nice but it is somehow messed up. I'm not using that tool even though I use most of Google's other tools and products
I think I have used it only 2 or 3 times in the past year. Sometimes because I saw it being used in a movie and I think to myself oh yeah I forgot about igoogle. I don't care for it that much though.
If you don't like it, don't use it. They've kept their basic options the same for anyone that wants to just use the search engine and chill out. But for those that want a bit more oomph for their use, the other options are available.
I personally don't care for it but I will use it to quickly check some WMT info when I don't want to completely sign in.
It seems there many out here who hates Google Well, I really like Google. It can provide you all the services or tools you want in optimizing your website. And I find their Search engines more accurate than other SE....