Bugs in Book module

I've been using Lighroom 4 to create a book to upload to Blurb.com.  In the process I've found several bugs.
Intermittently background pictures will display rotaged (90°).  This is unpredictable and affects only the way the background displays and NOT the way it exports.
Converting from Large Square to Small Square has a bug where it incorrectly converts two photos horizontal layout (7th down from the top on the right) to two photos vertical (7th down from the top on the left).
The uploaded book differes from Lightroom.   In Lightroom page 1 shows on the left as part of 1 & 2 page.  However, once uploaded, on the blurb site page one shows on the right next to the cover and the next page is 2 & 3.  This creates problems throughout the book including breaking two-page spreads.
Looking forward to the next update.
Regards,
Vito

"- Having a favorite list of background images: For my book, I have used around 10 background images, and it was time consuming to search them in the filmstrip amongst the 600 other photos when creating new pages (now I am thinking a little more about it, maybe I could have associated a special keyword to these images, for instance background, and filter the filmstrip to quickly find them. however, I don't know if it is possible to display only image containing a given keyword in the filmstrip)."
I think your idea would work. In Library, filter to those images (easy way is to double click the keyword in the Keywords panel on the right) and then save a Filter Preset using the little menu in the top right of the Library Filter panel. So that's a once only task. Back in Book, assuming those background images are with the rest of the images for your book, you can then apply this preset from the filmstrip (just like the Used and Unused presets).
I don't think it's ideal, and your list idea might work, but this is how I'd approach it as things are now.

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