I'm often wanting to set the outerHeight of an element.  Currently I have to figure out manually the padding and border to make sure I am setting the height() correctly.  

Would jQuery accept a patch that by providing an integer height to outerHeight, it will set the height.  The idea is if you should be able to do:

$foo.outerHeight(  $bar.outerHeight() )

And no matter what border / padding $foo might have, it will still look the same size as $bar.

I bet this is a rather common problem and will add very little code.