Enhance the "Applications" feature of "Computer Properties"

My issue with it is simply how messy the "Applications" list is in "Computer Properties". A base Windows instalaltion will show such things as: Address Book, Branding, DirectAnimation, IE40, IE4Data, IE5BAKEX, and every single KB article on the system. It also shows multiple entries for patches i.e. MSXML4, "Security", and many, many more. For Mac systems you get every little component like "X11", "Time Machine", "System Events" etc. It's all a bit hard to read.

What I would propose is that the "Applications" view be more like the actual Windows "Add or Remove Programs" list. Where common "base" features (that have not been installations) are not shown at all, patches appear under "[+]" entries of the major product, and perhaps a "Show updates" tick box to further clean up the interface by not showing these until needed. Currently I have written a few SQL queries that pull out inventory information for me, and it returns everything I need... unfortunately there is a lot of filtering going on to make it readable, and it would certainly be better to just use the DS feature that is already there and mostly working.

NOTE: I keep being told I should not be using "Deployment Server Console" as an inventory solution, but to be honest, it's just so much better than dealing with NS (and Internet Explorer), and certainly has far less impact on our end-users when running, not to mention that it is more convenient for the helpdesk workers (who spend all day with DS Console open). Sure it only checks the registered "uninstall" and "install" registry entries, but for 99% of our hardware/software queries, that is all we are chasing.