Thanks for refreshing my memory about Tinker Tool. It has all the flexibility of Login Control (2.0)) and more. I despise the the bait and switch approach that some developers use to snare customers, especially those that use this technical for "one trick ponies" as a marketing technique in order to trick the less tach savvy buyers into spending far more money for a product than they would have if they had of known what the final price would be up front before they purchased the product. Instead such developers sneak up the price in overpriced 'upgrades' that typically only offer marginal feature improvements in order to get customer to purchase bug fixes that address issues that should have been caught in the original release. Their philosophy is that if a customer has already paid for the product once they will pay again at the inflated price for convenience. My philosophy is that if a developer pulls this trick on me, I look for a viable substitute, so I can dump the product and thus avoid any future losses.
In my experience, I rarely find a situation that getting rid of a 'one trick pony' for a viable substitute involves any substantial loss of time, data, or capability.

Thanks again for reminded me about Tinker Tool - a tool with a long history of being a great product with many features. Login Control is now gone from my machine.

Great! In Leopard one can only move login items to the end of the list, which can make it possible to reorder things with a lot of judicious dragging, but this is way better. I do wish that it also controlled the "Hide" feature.

IIRC, the "simultaneous" launching of login items ended wlth Tiger.