I decided to give Firefox 3 another chance and found that, with a fair amount of tweaking, it can be made to behave well. After I turned off the tabbed interface, turned off Global Search and Indexing, switched from the Smart Folders view to the All Folders view, and (most annoyingly) turned off "Keep messages for this account on this computer" for each IMAP account individually, it worked almost the same as Thunderbird 2. The new superior Gmail integration paired with promise of regular security updates provided me with enough motivation to upgrade. I still abhor their choice of defaults, but at least it's configurable so I can get rid of their annoying interface choices (the KDE folks desperately need to take a page from that playbook; drag n drop popup menu, I'm looking at you).
For further reference see Thunderbird 3 for Users.
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