Well, although I see your point reaper, it's not really relative to what players would see if I dm'd (not too interested really, but considering none-the-less). They would likely see lots of down-time waiting for events that actually entice people of their power, and would likely be involved in mostly fighting critters below thier level, since I try not to develop campaign worlds where the creatures scale to match teh players...
For instance, fighting a horde of trolls with the aid of some Dragons...
or
Anything in the Astral Plane (which I personally believe should be Encounter Level 17 or greater, always).
The logic for that belief is that it's a 9th level spell, and most of the people that live there are stationary, or travel in large groups... not to mention that players are semi-protected because of where they are...
And my Plane of Shadow is EL 27, so don't even dare to step in there... but then again, I regress... this thread should be trying to recruit a DM that honestly wants to try his hand with this kind of stuff.