I no worries nor need for niceties :D
Well... Being civilized doesn't hurt neither

More seriously: your knowledge wrt/ the questions was hard to tell from your post (well, to me at least), so I thought I'd better do too much than too few 8)
Now waiting for your tests reports... I guess I won't be of much help here - looks like you know better than me FWIW - but hopefully someone else might be able to tell what and why...
Seeya
B.