Hi Richard,
Yes the panel layout wizard is a little temperamental (frustrating) - if
you're patient you can usually get the panel
display that you want, but if
you can find out how to code it directly then I'd be interested!
You can set your panel display from the global & space preferences pages.
Then under the skin tab, look at the panel options : you can decide to
display left & right panels and add the panels you want to be displayed
using the following convention :
Panels.PanelName,Panels.PanelName2, and so on.
Guillaume