I'm glad you had just a "few" questions <grin>. Good questions and I took a crack at most of them. I maintain a blog, so I blogged about your questions there. Please check out
http://ts2blogs.com/blogs/rwagg/archive/2008/08/01/let-s-answer-a-few-questions.aspx
For my responses. There are a couple questions I couldn't answer, but I think I got 12 of your 14 questions. ping me back if you have more questions and maybe we can talk about them. I hope this helps!
Rob!