you're right! I somehow managed to overlook that part…this makes more sense, I'll see if I can get it to work – if it does, it'd of course be better than changing core code.

ok..this didn't work so well, because admins must at least have 1 capability in order to keep the admin status and being able to use the special admin features (admin bar, notifications).

so i may have to go with my code change for the time being…

Ah. it may be that is a 4.1 change… I will check it out.

you do not have to be an admin to have access to the admin/moderator options (noitce the name of the tab).  if a user is a moderator (in a usergroup with the moderator flag checked), the user will be shown the tab with the options in the wp admin.   dont confuse the individual admin/moderator options with the global admin options.  just verified its working properly.

perhaps I am misunderstanding what you are trying to do…

You're right.

I've looked at the WP profile/admin pages several times and I swear I did not see the SF menu/tab.

So this will do of course and feel free to remove the above code snippet to not confuse anyone (even though it worked nicely 😉

Mo worries – glad that it is functioning as I thought it was!