Hi FrogKing! Yay for another Aussie!
We definately want another way to move. Even if it's just clicking on the mini-map. In the mean time, you can press CAPS-LOCK and move the mouse to the edge of the screen to scroll. You can cover large distances fairly easily with this. You can also use this to throw your Teleporter Stones a long distance (they can take about 20 seconds to land though). Just remember to press CAPS-LOCK again to centre the camera on you.
I seem to remember another thread about auto-combat. The best idea we came up with was to have a three-way toggle for combat: Passive, Combat, and Auto-Combat. This was because it makes it very hard to control a Wizard with low health that either happily runs up to monsters or sits there draining mana into firballs.