IMHO, what is *TRULY* needed is to merge the Admin/Moderators/Users into a single entity, and then grant Admin/Moderator permissions to individual users on a *GRANULAR* level. (Have an advanced set of permissions that can be granted separately. View would be a different permission than save or delete)

For example, The main systems Admin would have permission to do everything, and Access the admin panel.

(S)he could then grant permissions for Admin #2 to access the users and have all permissions see more except delete, as well as moderate the Chat and Blogs

Admin #3 would be given permissions to moderate the Forums and Groups.

Etc...

These Admins would use their regular user accounts to do this, instead of having a separate login. One of the reasons for this is so that Admins can recieve Mail through the system. (A feature that is currently lacking in the Admin/Moderator system.)

Additionally, it would be nice if ALL admins could be given access to a System-wide Admin mailbox that could be used to report errors/problems, and track responses. This way a pool of admins/moderators could respond to/be aware of problems instead of just a single person getting the email/message. As well as a record of any responses. This would also provide an audit trail for problem resolution.

Sammie, if I may be so bold as to state, I think that this would have helped you recently. If the entire team had access to your messages and the responses to them, it might have been possible to resolve them more rapidly. (As an example of the need for this particular feature) On an extremely active site, this could be very vital, since it would be possible for the "left-hand" to know what the "Right-hand" is doing.