Suggestions to improve Bridge CS4 Collections feature

The new "Collections" feature in Bridge CS4 is Great! It's pretty close to what I've been missing in CS3. In working with the new feature I've discovered several areas where it could be made even more useful.
1. It appears folders get added to Smart Collections but cannot be dragged to regular Collections. I'd like to be able to drag a folder from the Content or Folders panes into a Collection. When I try, I see a "can not do this" icon symbol.
2. I'd like to be able to drag Stacks into Collections. As it is now, I can expand the stack and drag the individual photos into a Collection. But then I have to re-stack the images in the Collection. Since the photos were already stacked in their original (real) folder, this seems redundant.
3. I'd like to be able to create Collections of Collections. Since it seems the Collections pane can only contain a single level of entries, I envision this pane becoming unwieldy over time.
4. When working with Collections, and viewing the contents of a specific collection, the Folders pane "resets" to the top level. So I then need to re-navigate to where I was working in the filesystem to add items to Collections. While I understand the rationale for this, it's a hassle. It'd be nice to be able to maintain my position in the Folders view, grab some files, view the contents of a Collection, and be able to flip back to the Folders pane to continue exploring the filesystem where I left off, without having to remember where I was and re-navigate to that location.
Thanks for reading :)
-Bill

I second your #3.
I use non-smart Collections as a way to organise customer initial enquiries and subsequent choice of image to take from the selection I offer. In this respect, CS4 is a real imprvement over CS3. But keeping lots of current collections for many customers in a flat file system isn't a viable long-term solution.
Folders within Collections would therefore be a real boon for me, too.
The 4th top row icon from the left generates a drop-down list of recent folders. Could this be an answer to your #4?

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