Preserve Search results selection across multiple result pages

Currently, if you do a contact find and the results of it span several result pages, you have to apply any actions one page at a time. This is very cumbersome. It would be great to be able to select contacts on all the pages and then apply the action only once, to all the selected contacts. (also see this post: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,2321.0.html)

Thanks,
Cynthia