I'd really like to know who thought that:
"SH-178 As a non-god, I don't want to see admin options and be confused about them, but as QA I still want to be able to access admin options as non-god "
Was possibly ever a good idea without checking with the residents first.
I have to do a large amount of mentoring on how to play media streams in second life and I have to be able to use the show admin options so I can see what people messed up in the URL field and show them snapshots of what setting options should look like.