Fantastic game, been playing it for the past week or so during work and finally caught up with this whole thread too.
Regarding your newest patch with the full button panel...still a few bugs I think. I sorted them all the way I wanted them before going into combat, and as soon as I did, it removed all of the spaces I had purposely put in to keep things separate, and scrunched them all together. For example, if I had a space at the end (right) of the first line, the icon I had at the far left of the second line moved up to it, and all of the second line moved over one.
Furthermore, in the middle of combat I resorted them, thinking perhaps it just wasn't keeping the same setup in and out of combat...and in the middle of combat several of my icons moved yet again. Not all of them, but a bunch of them. I'm assuming that isn't how you intended it to be, since it isn't really fully customizable if we have to keep them all in one continuous line.
Again, really loving the game, it brings back a ton of memories without having to actually play EQ again. I'm playing an SK because that's what I know and love, and I saw a few comments that it could stand to be beefed up a bit, which I sort of agree with, but good enough for now.