Dashboard - displaying a widget on top of all windows all the time

Seems that I remember in previous versions of Dashboard, you could get it to show selected (or all) widgets all the time. Call it "on the desktop" or "on the top level" or whatever, but you didn't have to enter the expose-like environment to interact with a widget.
Is there a way to do this or am I missing something or did they take this away in the later version(s) or ...??
Widgets have been more of a novelty to me as I haven't really had a need for widgets until now. I have one widget that I'd like to have shown all the time on my second monitor as, well, as a dashboard display. But I need it there all the time.
I also seem to remember using a 3rd party util that provided another way to do this, but all the ones I've just looked at and tried don't offer that desktop-level functionality.
Thanks much in advance!!
SA
Dual 1GHz G4   Mac OS X (10.2.x)  

I may have just answered my own question.
Seems there's a wiki on it (you'll have to copy/paste this link):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashboard_(software)
It involves hitting (and holding down) the hot-key for Dashboard (F12 unless you've changed it in the sys prefs), dragging the widget you want and then releasing the hot-key. When released, you should still be dragging the widget and it should remain floating on the desktop.
In addition, there's a command-line terminal hack for developers which will apparently make this permanent, although I haven't verified this yet:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
It seems to be working for me so far. Anyone care to verify this?
Thanks again!
SA

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