If you drag the search.savedsearch then right-click on that you have an option to rename it. However, it says that I don't have sufficient privileges. What do I need to do to fix that?
You have completely overlooked Adobe's offering called AIR. While it is more developer oriented, it is exactly this same idea. Furthermore, one could argue that this sort of thing has been happening for quite sometime. Many Flash developers (as well as other types of devs) have been building "Web 2.0" Apps for the desktop utilizing tools such as Flash—Screentime and or Zinc.
Fluid and Prism are great offerings (esp. for non-devs), but they are only one side of the spectrum.
Does it have grammar checking? That is a key ingredient I would be willing to pay for. Granted it is better to know my grammar than to have some application remind me that mine is poor; however, grammar checking comes in handy now and then.
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