I notice that there's duplicate reports of the HTML documentation in the Haskell Platform having chunks missing
Which ticket numbers are these? Trac allows one of them to be closed as a duplicate. Perhaps you can do that, or at least provide those details in email here.
When I get a minute I'll log in, mark the duplicates, and add a note to the ticket confirming that the issue still exists.
I thought the purpose of filing a bug report was to get things fixed?
The purpose of filing bug reports is to ensure that problems are not forgotten. It allows the community (people like you) to have a useful understanding of the problems that exist when choosing what tasks to put time and effort into fixing.
*sigh* I guess that means the next step is to figure out if it's broken for the Linux builds as well, or just for Windows. (Can't test for Mac OS since I don't have access to the necessary hardware or software...)