My mistake. Personalized away messages are here! And Cirque (scroll down till September 29th) explained how to remove the Goggle thing. I need to figure out how to remove the startup sound, and I'm good.
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I think that bobbing-when-hidden behavior is meant to happen. For e.g. when an application "requests attention", bobbing occurs... Just like the taskbar flashes. Anyway.
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