Actually, studies have suggested that you're supposed to stretch after exercising, but not before. Stretching before leads to more injuries. You're supposed to warm up before, stretch afterwards. I heard it on Quirks and Quarks.
I hear you, brother. Or, in my case, before I practice a sport, I should raise my stamina slightly above the "run 20 yards and drop" stage. Interoffice football, who knew it could be so demanding?
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)