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Probably wouldn't hurt to at least point out that you won't see anything change until you get to the "turn that stuff off" step.
It also took me a little longer than it probably should have to figure out where "Choose right side layout" was configured.
Thanks for writing up your technique!
For those interested in trying this, it's worth noting that you'll need to disable some things like the tabbed inbox.
The step-by-step eventually mentions this, but until you get to that point you won't see any sign of the multiple inbox UI.
It would be nice to some more of this.
For Google Apps (for Business, Education, and ISPs), information on logins (both successful and failed) and logouts is already available to the domain administrator: http://code.google.com/googleapps/domain/audit/docs/1.0/audi...
For personal accounts, you have access to SOME of this data: select "Details" next to the account activity information in the footer of Gmail's web interface.