I mean the 7 by 6 grid showing a month calendar with the little arrows to
each side of the month's name. Lets call it a calendar control.

Suddenly, I've noticed that I can't easily navigate across months when I
could do it easily in 2003 when mulitple months were shown on the left nav
pane.

Yes, I do see that I can see multiple months in the to-do bar with 3 clicks,
a delete, typing a number, and another click. Wow that's hard. Or I can
minimize the to-do bar with one click and I get the nice multi-months in the
nav bar that I like but then loose the to-do bar because its state is
maintained across mail/calendar/contacts.

Its weird. Not until yesterday did I notice the multi-month nav was gone and
now it is wigging me out as I do some multi-month planning. Though, I can
understand the potential confusion of having two calendar controls; one on
each side.

Thanks for confirming my insanity of not noticing this until now. :-)