Hmmm. Lots of things to think about. I don't know if I could live without the panel.
The 30 day free trial is a great idea- I can see how I'd like it and go from there.
I have not reinstalled all of PSE again, but somehow caps locked on even though they weren't on on my keyboard and I had to reset all my settings and thus had to reinstall some stuff and set up things the way I like them again. I was just concerned that things were going to keep glitching. So far, so good though since I reset my settings.