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Oy vey, so many ways which one to use...

The break tag/split summary at cursor ain't very intuitive for users, works great...but is kinda buggy for me with FCKeditor installed, I'm not the only one it seems;
http://drupal.org/node/193680
http://drupal.org/node/159981
http://drupal.org/node/201667

Via php snippets at Geshan's blog:
http://geshan.blogspot.com/2008/06/taming-drupal-node-teaser-and-node.html

And I think the solution is a module, yet to try it, lets see:
http://drupal.org/project/teaserbytype

Is this "simple-slide-panel" re-stlyed via css and thrown into it's own region.

Themeing the core blog mod to use separate templates from the rest of the site. Essentially stop the blog posts from using page-tpl and make them use page-node-blog-tpl for all individual posts and page-blog-tpl for the teaser/excerpt view, the blog home so to speak.

The solution is here:
http://drupal.org/node/223440#comment-1045201

*Updated, 11/12/08:

http://drupal.org/node/223440#comment-1101275

Testing imagefield and imagecache out in this post.

Mustard Seed has a great video tutorial on these two mods here:
http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode16