@Grenville: Thanks!

@Bert: Sorry! *blush*
Messages do have DOBs. It's in the grey bar between your list of messages and where to send new messages to. It has DOB, pt's age, when last seen and by whom. True, you have to click on the message first to get the information but it is there.
Highly agree with the Re:/Fw: etc. Gets redundent.
I thought messages were listed according to time sent? We also use the color coded system here to let doctor know how important a message is. In fact, I'd like to suggest more than 4 colors please. (Can't use white as that's the default for charts of pt's being seen that've been forwarded to MA/Dr.) It'd be nice if we could have one or two more colors for varying degrees of importance. Not highly important, but I thought I'd throw it out there.
Also would like more choices who to send messages to rather than one person and a cc, or EVERYONE. Also for a way to set order boxes to default to certain groups or people. (Like Immunizations and lab tests to nursing groupbox.) Would that be possible?