Pool just keeps getting bigger!
I wonder if there are some 50BTC pool people here?  Since 50BTC get hacked 

Break out the Krug. 

Congrats Haribo!

I have just started mining at bitminter and I'm coming from btcguild. I'm a little confused as to where I can find my miners income in btc per shift. I suppose I'm accustomed to how guild shows stats. I can see the summary but that is my reward upto now.

Help point me in the right direction?

I see payment per block now, that's half way there reward per shift provides an immediate outlook at how my miners are doing throughout the day so please look into that.

Also, number of workers on workers page is 5 at a time with no way to change that. I'm pointing 16 workers to your pool and it's cumbersome at best to click on buttons just to glance at my workers. Look into giving an option to change number of workers per page.

There is a huge amount of detail on full live stats page I'm sure you can sneak in current shift earnings. Other than that I'm loving mining here so far.

Shift page as you mentioned probably works the best.

  last 24 income would be fantastic...

Every BFL preorder has a mug.  Sorry I couldn't resist.

Yes the Bitminter client sure does make mining easier. All the time I wasted back in the day trying to get my GPU running with cgminer and then Bitminter worked 1st time.

If you have backup of your wallet.dat file it's OK. If not ... try HDD data recovery company and pray.

Correct.
The wallet.dat file contains your private keys for your addresses. Without these you are unable to "reclaim" your coins.