Terry,
The question of project management is the area where your claims about the need for new skills and different approaches for fields such as graphic design become compelling. It seems likely that the feel of a website will change depending on whether the team leader cares and understands particular issues. The roles taken by each team member will also be affected by the background of the people with power (which doesn't always mean the people higher up the org chart.) And, of course, the narrower the view of any participant, the less likely it should be for that person to have overall management responsibilities.
Nine or ten years ago I wrote a short article about this. The line that gets quoted was "Graphic designers often feel helpless when they find themselves in the role of visual dishwashers for the Information Architect chefs." I just reread the article and it's not too embarrassing considering the subject and the age of the article. (Eight years is a blink of the eye for some things but I figure web years = dog years x 2 so it's over a century ago that I wrote it.) It's funny to think that the phrase "experience design" was once exotic and people knew who and what Carson and TRL were.
The article is "The Web vs. Design: 'Usability' and the Homogenized Future” and it was in Steve Heller's _The Education of an e-Designer_. There's a text version at http://www.gunnarswanson.com/old/writingPages/WebWoes.html
The fluid nature of the responsibilities you've listed and the question of overall influence is best summed up by the Prayer to St. Venn: "Please let me be the center of the organizational diagram." (I don't know who originally came up with that one. The guy I'm sure said it claims he learned it from me. I wish I were that clever.)
Gunnar
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