I guess I'm alone in wanting this feature, or my post was so convuleted, that it didn't make any sense.

Regardless, I still love the idea and think that it would be a fantastic addition of vBulletin.
I did some further thinking on it this weekend and made a little progress. I created a new forum called "Tasks" and another new forum called "Completed Tasks." I create a new task in the "Tasks" form and when it's complete, I close the thread and move the thread to the "Completed Tasks" forum. This gives a very rudimentary version of a task list, but it's a start.
The only thing missing is a method of ranking the tasks so that they have a priority. One possible solution would be to:
1. Add a field to the db for rank
2. Add the field to the new post template (I forget the name)
3. Create a new templata, a' la pluhnews that shows the posts from the task forum sorted by the "Rank" field.
4. Add the field to all the other views.
This is a rudimentary implementation, but it's a start. If anyone has any feedback, insight, whatever, I'd love to discuss it!