Figured I'd throw this out there... I made a tiny function to generate a "reply" link anywhere in the topic. I'm using it in the post meta area to let the user quickly go to the post reply box.
function geek_post_reply_link(){
global $topic;
echo '<a href="'.get_topic_link($topic->topic_id,get_page_number( $topic->topic_posts )) . "#postform".'">Reply</a>';
}I couldn't find anything else similar, so I thought I'd share.