From Audacity to Soundbooth CS5 (aka improving speech)

Hello all,
I have been using Audacity for years and I needed to change because of a requirement to output FLV audio with cue points. Soundbooth appears to have this capability.
I have used Audacity to edit speech files and I consistantly applied the following procedures in order to enhance the speech:
1- Sample and apply noise removal
2- Apply Low Pass filter with:Rolloff 6db, q = 0.7, Cutoff = 5500 Hz
3- Apply Bass Boost with: Frequency = 200 Hz, Boost = 8 dB
As I mentioned, I am new to Soundbooth and I would like to know how to do the equivalent in Soundbooth. Additionally, if anyone has other suggestions on improving speech quality (I am aiming for Public Radio quality.. suitable for training audio). I am constrained with actual recording quality so I need to work as much 'magic' as possible in post production.... I have been relatively successful with those Audacity perimeters.
While experimenting with Soundbooth, I think I have found most of the equivalents but please confirm if these are best practices:
1-Noise Removal
   Select dead air section of recording, click Processes, select Capture Noise Print
   click Processes, select Reduce Noise, Use default settings (Use Captured Noise Print - checked)
2-Low pass and bass boost seem to be handled by EQ:Parametric (advanced)
   I am unsure if I like what the Male Voice Enhancer does (it seems to introduce artifacts to the audio)
Any suggestions or comments?
Finally, is there a way to automate these audio enhancements to quickly process the audio and move on the next of many wav files.
Thank you

The following help file specifically states that one can indeed embed cue points within a saved .flv file.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Soundbooth/2.0/WSA5A1DDFB-6BE2-4486-BE0C-A10CEEF119ADa.html
This does not work for me in Soundbooth CS4 and I am unable to test CS5.

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