More space for widgets

Dear All,
Problem: Toolbar at the top of the screen has a finite size. It is populated as follows from left to right:
1) Apple icon on the top left
2) Drop down menu headers for current application
3) Miscellaneous other useful things such as the date, a battery charge indicator, spotlight etc, some standard and some that can optionally be added such as a network throughput monitor.
If there's insufficient space for all these the menus for the current application (2) have precedence over the miscellaneous widgets (3) and some of the latter are hiddden.
Is there a way of showing widgets obscured in this way?
I can get half way there: If I select a visible drop down menu on the top right of the screen and then press the left arrow, the next drop down menu to the left appears even if the icon at the top is obscured. The problem is that say with the network activity monitor the activity is shown in the icon which is obscured and not in the drop down menu.
I wish it were possible to click on the inch or so of blank bar between the application drop down menu headers and the miscellaneous widgets and have the hidden icons shown.
Otherwise is it possible to make the bar wider or put the widgets somewhere else, e.g. the dashboard?
Regards, Max
p.s. thought I'd posted this a few days ago but it doesn't appear in my posts or my questions list - if you think you've seen this somewhere before you probably have!

Thanks for your response. Menu extras - I'll make a note of that. However:
I don't buy the argument about third party menu extras being the problem, taking up too much space. I ran a search under system settings to see how many entries I could find offering to put one or more icons in the menu bar. Here's the result:
Finder
Date
Synchronisation
Battery Status (external power and battery charge)
AirPort status
BlueTooth Status
Keyboard - national setting
Volume
Modem status
Bluetooth status
PPPoE status
Apple icon (top left)
I haven't checked that the synchronisation or bluetooth or PPoE search hits correspond to menu extras but all the others do. I don't have blootooth (yet) and haven't subscribed to .Mac but I could so they should be counted.
In toto (by the primitive mechanism of ruler on screen and assuming that the menu extras that I don't have up already are the same size as the smallest of those that I do have) that leaves me with 14.5 cm (6") in which to put the application specific menu entries on a 24.6 cm (10") wide screen, default resolution. That's 59% of the screen width, and insufficient space for the Safari menu items (with my language settings anyway).
I know the argument about an item on the edge of the screen being easier to select than one in the middle, but getting to an item at all must surely take priority over getting to it easily.
Besides this is software - it's meant to be easy to change. The default answer to most customisation questions should be: sure, just change this bit of code - it's so superbly documented that it won't take you half an hour to get the hang of it.
I'd pay a small sum - maybe 5 USD - or do half an hour of programming for a nice solution to the minor irritation of the menu bar problem. I'd pay more and put more effort into almost anything else on my wishlist. I shall therefore quietly set the problem to one side and consider the more vital things in life. Thanks again for the info regarding the guidelines. Appreciated anyway.
Regards, Max
Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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