This is going to sound very weird, predominantly cause I doubt Scrivener was ever designed for Netbooks, but here goes.
In 1024*600 (Netbook default) Resolution [Editor mode]:
1. Close the Info bar (right hand side bar).
2. Unminimize Scrivener.
At the bottom of the screen, you should see the bar telling you your word count and character count.
3. Click on the Infobar.
You will notice that the footer bar will disappear. *poof*
Now, I'm guessing that because the "Info bar" is set at a particular height in an "unminimized" mode, it overshoots what can be displayed on a 1024*600 resolution, and hence the footer disappears.
Additionally, you will be unable to resize the unminimized Scrivener window. It just wouldn't allow it. I couldn't, for the love of me, find a way to change the height of the Info bar when in this mode.
For the liberty of testing this, I expanded my resolution to 1024*768, and sure enough, I could see the footer bar at the bottom of the window, but I still could not change the window size.
4. If you close the info bar and try to move the window around, the footer bar will come back.
As a proof of concept, here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MgDMyDKUGc
(Yes, it is Windows XP. I simply tweaked things to get it to look like that cause working in a small resolution doesn't do good for easy access to files
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