Desktops and portals - 8.1 development

We're having a fun time here, trying to determine which tools are appropriate to which tasks in on-going Portal 8.1 development.
First issue: We have created a Zions.portal file in Workshop. This is where we do fundamental things like wire in the Visitor Tools. Then, of course, we go into the Admin tool, and create a desktop through which to render the portal. Now, say we want to change the way the portal is wired to Visitor Tools. The only place I can find to do this is on the portal file in Workshop. How do I then push that change to the desktop(s), without nuking them and recreating them?
Second issue: Say we want to add a particular page to the desktop, but want it to be reflected in the Zions.portal file for generating future desktops. How should this be done?
Third issue: We've created a new portlet on one of our individual development environments. Now we want to move it to our integrated environment, and add it to the desktop. The only way we can seem to make it available in the Admin Tool Library is to actually REcreate the portlet file on that environment, or to add it to the Zions.portal file, nuke the existing desktop, and create a new one.
Can someone help me understand how these sorts of activities are supposed to be handled between tools/environments?

Second issue: Changes made in desktop will not be reflected in the .portal file because the .portal file is just an xml file where as the changes to the desktop are written to the desktop.
but this issue can be solved in a way with the solution for the third issue.
Third issue: just create a new desktop by choosing the newly updated .portal file as template and select "keep the existing resources". You will see the changes in your previously created "main desktop". you can now delete this newly created desktop.
hope this helps
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