I decided to check out Lastpass on your recommendation in the earlier blog post, “Password Manager Shootout.” After a week or so, I can't see being without it, so thanks!
On your tip of hiding the tool bar, I hid the tool bar through the browser. I didn't like having the icon show in the status bar; a little digging uncovered a stylish script for firefox that hides status bar icons until a mouse-o ver. Name of style: “Statusbar:Mouseover for clutter”