DVCAM to ProRess - Clip Analyze - Color Smoothing

Hello,
A few questions that I'll try to make brief. I'd really appreciate someone experienced giving their outlook.
1 - I've got an old DVCAM project captured and backed up to a hard drive. I'm just pulling the project out again to get it as nice as possible for a master copy and DVD; finish it off as best as possible.
Should I use media manager to recompress to ProRess(HQ) for PAL if I'm going to be doing extensive color grading?
2 - When I look at the clips in the timeline with the analyze tool it says Codec: DV - Pal at Medium Quality. When I check other (my original captured files - before I used media manager on the whole project) those files say Codec: DV - Pal at Most Quality.
Should I be re-creating my project from the original captured files, as the one's my timeline is referencing (after using Media Manager to consolodate the project) say Medium Quality?
I assume, if so, I should do this before the ProRess conversion process, right?
3 - I've heard of using a color smoothing filter before the conversion process to ProRess, but my footage is DVCAM PAL 4:2:0. Does that mean I just skip any color smoothing step, or is there another process for those coming from a 4:2:0 color space?
Thanks so much for any help,
Matthew Morreale
Yoga Maya Films - www.yogamayafilms.com
The Film Producer's Podcast - www.yogamayafilms.com/podcast

I'll give it one more shot (bring the post to the top of the list) to see if anyone could help with answers to these things.
Anyone?

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