AC-3

What I did (and what I THINK that wajones did) for the front page abbreviation, was to add an additional column in the post table for a summary.

Granted you have to type your info twice, but sometimes and intro might be better written a different way then just the first sentance of the story.

I did hack the create a post template to add the additional text field as well.

Hope that sheds some light on what I did.