Wheeeeee!
Fiddled some more, using all of the tips put forth in this thread, and wrangled the MiniMap around.
Here's a shot of my "new" MiniMap,
toggled open and closed:
Hovering over the Dragon's head gives you
zone info in the tooltip ...
(this was an "accidental" feature I ran with):
Here's a shot with Tracking/Mail/etc.
notification icons displayed:
Sorry, trivial I know, but I just wanted to thank you Beladona and everyone else for taking the time to hand-hold some of us newer folks. I know I for one, really appreciate it.
I still have a few issues with what I did, namely, getting the original map to hide (again), and getting my map to play nice with other AddOns that want to play with the minimap. I also have my suspicions that the ping, while functioning on my map, may not work right for other people in my group as intended. Time to go outside though now. Challenges for another day. :-)
PS:
Images include use of smilies, the vB code [img] tag and HTML <img> tags. The use of these is all subject to them being enabled by the administrator. ... I take the limit is four? No emoticons for me! ;-)