I tried out Headline Viewer. Nice little program. Heavy on the includes for us bandwidth-impaired folks, but pairing down the active list fixed that.

The problem is that it uses MoreOver, which is listed as adware/spyware on my system and it's automatically filtered out. I use a couple of pieces of software to keep ads and spyware off my system. I could disable the MoreOver entries, but they're there for a reason.

Oh well, maybe I WILL need to write my own.