Migrating to Google Apps

So, on learning that Google's "Apps for your Domain" (GAFYD) is actually free (as in beer) up to a point, I decided to give it a go. The reason - gradually breaking free (as in.. oh never mind) of my lock-in to Virgin Media (ntlworld), having held an email address with them for five years in the face of their never-ending bullshit. They just last month sent me two emails to tell me we'll now be paying 25p a minute for broadband support calls, which naturally most of us with a clue will only ever need when they screw up.

Anyway, GAFYD..

Problems I have with this service itself are minimal - it works exactly as its supposed to. It would be nice if the whole thing could appear transparently hosted on my domain so I can avoid my works filter on the gmail.com domain, but I can see how that might be difficult for them to achieve. Some problems:

Google Reader not in the package - Some people think they're logging in using GAFYD - i'm not seeing it. Looking at the URL's for the actual Apps versions of GMail and Calendar tells me they're not the same versions. Most of the standard Google web applications simply aren't ready to accept GAFYD logins.

Working Calendar Widget for Start Page - It seems openly acknowledged that the standard calender widget doesn't show any entries. Attempts to install a newer version give the entries only if you go through the process of logging right into the calendar, defeating the point.

Working Calendar Widget for Google Desktop - I finally upgraded to a large wide LCD and decided to use the sidebar built into Desktop, but its Calendar widget only supports, yep, standard Google accounts.

EDIT: Bullshit, sorry. I later found that gadget versions of Gmail and Calendar quite happily work from the Desktop sidebar with an Apps account. Excellent!

These seem to be the kind of problems that Google gradually gets around to solving, but if anybody has any tips to get any of these problems solved more quickly, speak up!