This same thing comes up every day in the MtGox support channel on IRC - they should really make it clearer as a lot of people get verified and then don't appear to realise they can just increase the limits by sending an email in.
Well sorry for all the noise then.
However you must agree that since everything is not clear about Gox and verification and moving money around, it isn't surprising that SWIFT is not thought of as a option for the uninitiated. I'm comfortable with it now, after doing some smaller test transactions to determine what the interbank charges were, which fortunately are none for me. Becoming verified did take some time too, since their site said I didn't need to send my government issued ID, but it really was required.