i have made a couple copies of my hotkey bar.. so i have 3 sitting on my desktop. each is set to different page the hotbar (1-3). so i just click now on the ability i want to cast. i have access to them all. i just arranged them together.. buffs, AE, situational, etc.. just so they are easier to find during battle.
so its not so cluttered, i got rid of the black letter box, and borders and backgrounds to all windows except for my main group/tell chatbox. it totally opened everything up as well as gave me access to everything.
eq2 has one sweet interface. =)
gl