Well, there's a lot of KB articles again, but there's lots of useful stuff in here, so take a look. Area Templates are an annoyance for most people because they expect it to be like site templates and it is not, but still, I've linked to the useful information on the subject on MSD2D. There's a good link to all the MSD2D articles on SharePoint. Happy new year by the way!

Configure Server Farm Account Settings page not displayed and SharePoint Central Administration site not configured when you run SPS03 Setup (831704)
It takes a longer time to create a new WSS Web site on the portal site as the number of Web sites increases (830353)
Crawl performance is slow in SPS03 (829216)
SPS03 and WSS currently do not support SSL termination (831106)
Content that is outside the search scope is unexpectedly returned in the search results when you search a portal site that is in your SPS server farm (831203)
The keyword Best Bets that are returned in search results display incorrect URLs in SPS03 (829877)
'Your personal site cannot be created because a site already exists with your username' error message when you click My Site in SPS 2003 (832863)
'A site template has already been applied to this site' error message when you try to import a Web package to My Sites (830978)
'The page cannot be displayed' error message when you try to open a Visio XML drawing (.vdx) in a document library on your WSS site (832815)
The SPS03 search scope properties do not appear in the IIS log files (829881)
The Web folders client incorrectly processes DAV:resourcetype properties that are not empty as collections (830255)
'The initialize strings method returned the incorrect number of strings' error message when you use FrontPage 2003 Web Part properties (829067)
Considerations that apply when you use FrontPage 2003 to edit SPS03 sites (831612)
'Compilation has finished successfully, but the ending status has not been properly set' error on Manage Audiences after you compile (827853)
You do not receive any alerts and content is missing from search results after you restore SPS03 data (831084)
'System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object' error message when you try to create a portal site in SPS03 (832808)
How to manually remove SPS03 (830326)
How to view and how to manage site collection users in SPS03 (832807)
Considerations that apply when you enable anonymous access to your portal site through a virtual server (830424)
The Modify My Page link is only visible to members of the Administrators site group when you customize the pages of your portal site (830425)
How to target content to the Links for You Web Part and the News for You Web Part on My Site in SPS03 (825218)
You are unexpectedly prompted to enter your user credentials when you try to open an Office document in the workspace (833553)
Web folder items in the ShBrowseForFolder dialog box may not display external changes (831944)
Other pages are not updated when you change logo on Meeting Workspace Home page (828818)
Comparison of features that are included in WSS and in SPS03 (830320)
'HTTP error 403.1 forbidden: execute access is denied' error message is displayed in your Web browser when you connect to the portal home page (827858)
Permissions that are necessary for SharePoint Portal Server to crawl WSS content (831085)
How to use the Gthrlog.vbs tool to view gatherer logs in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (830330)
SPSFAQ080282 - Good list of links to SharePoint articles on MSD2D
SPSFAQ080283 - How do I create Area Templates?