Sounds great. I really hope Michael will come back with some useful information quite soon.
I would love to offer some help here but our general problem is that we don't have too much time left before we have to take a decision on whether we want to go for the refactored portal or not. To be honest, the idea to use the refactored portal instead of dotLRN just came up today although we are already expected to come up with some concrete timelines. Let's see how we can make it fit.