Managing/viewing Premiere Pro reviews

Question

I have a couple questions regarding managing and viewing reviews that are uploaded from Premiere Pro CS5:
Is the only means of navigating through the "parts" of a particular review the up and down arrows and the "# of #" box in the upper left corner of the review page? I've poked and prodded all around the service, and have found no other means of navigating directly to a particular review. If I'm missing it, please advise; if it's not there, this is something that has to be added soon to make this a viable means of sending previews to a client. I have a project with more than 20 sequences/parts in it already, and not having quick access to a specific part directly is going to frustrate already-fickle clients.
This hinges on the first question, so I think I already know the answer: is there a means of reorganizing the order in which uploaded reviews are displayed? For example, I have five reviews called A, B, C, D, and E, and I want them to appear in that order. However, the order they were uploaded is the order they are displayed: D, C, E, A, B. It seems that there might be a way of doing this for graphic/design reviews (I don't know for sure, as I don't work in this field or use CS Review for such), but I cannot find this option for video reviews.
This is more of a feature request than a "how-to" request: we need batch capability for encoding and uploading. I'm not sure if this would involve launching AME for background encoding (as is done currently for local exports), but one definite improvement would be assigning priority to encodes that are ready to be uploaded. In the example above with the 20-ish sequences (all about one minute in length), the encode goes quite quickly on my system--much faster than uploading. As a result, I can get five or six encodes done before the first upload is completed. Instead of spooling the uploads in order, the CS Review panel tries to shove every encode up the pipe as it is completed. This makes the entire upload process much slower than it would be if they were uploaded serially, instead of in parallel.
The first and second items are "gottahaves" if there is no way to do so now (I can already hear the client grumbling now), and the third would be a "nicetahave," so I hope feature and functionality updates are available in due course. For the record, I do like the service--I'm actually very impressed with it--and see great potential in it for making my life quite a bit easier when it comes to client relations. I just hope I'm missing #1 and #2 above, and there is an easy method of accessing both.
BONUS QUESTION (tongue-in-cheek): For those of us who are in video production and will only be using CS Review for video content, will we be credited for the amount of time between our CS5 registration date and the release of the CS Review service for Premiere Pro, so that we receive the full allotment of our free 12-month subscription?
Thank you for hearing me out, and any input you can provide.

Answer 1

Hi Mike,
Thank you very much for your reply. As a general statement, I really appreciate that you guys are staying on top of what real end-users actually need, instead of what sounds shiny and poofy in marketing literature. I'll respond to each of your responses, but I'll also send an email as I'd be glad to communicate with you in more detail on our use of the service.
1. You have found the two means of doing this...via the arrows and the part number edit box. We are planning on improving navigation as a focus in our upcoming releases. Question: What kind of navigation where you expecting to find and didn't?
I was afraid of that. The arrows are problematic because they're linear, and the numbers entry box is problematic because "part numbers" don't mean much of anything to the client. Both means of navigation are not direct enough, are not very self-explanatory (there isn't even a text call-out that says something like "Navigation"), and require a bit of looking around in the interface to locate. I know where these things are now, but I don't want to have to educate each new client on how to navigate the system. I hate to say it, but this thing needs to be accessible to the lowest common denominator in order to be effective. Several of the clients I work for require several sets of eyes or departments to review a given piece, so making the interface basic and navigation immediately obvious is crucial, as I'm sure you'll agree.
I could be sated with a simple dropdown that pulled the name of the review part (the web client already does this, and posts it beneath the video player), or even better, use the wasted space on the left side of web client to display each review part in a thumbnail. The interface could and should resemble the CS Review Panel, and could display the number of views, replies, and status (Changes Needed, Revised, Approved, Completed, etc) of a particular review part. Here's a quick, crude mockup of what I envision (I didn't have time to paint it or build it to scale)...
Hopefully that makes some sense; I think this type of navigation, while it maybe isn't as stripped down as you'd like, would make the service much easier to use for multipart reviews. Maybe a small button could be added to the division between the panes to slide in or out the "parts list" so it could be moved out of the way when not necessary.
2.  Reordering parts- you can drag n drop parts to reorder using the Review Panel. This was missing in the CS Review help chapter. Good catch Colin. We are considering ways to make this more obvious in the review panel and in the web client.
Maybe add some double-headed arrows (single-headed on the first and last part) that would serve as a visual indicator to click-and-drag, and add some pop-up bubbles that explain what the arrows do (this is already done with the Eye icon and the Comments icon)...
3. Regarding background processing of encode and prioritization of the upload- we are exploring using AME for enabling a encoding queue. We had not yet considered the use case for prioritizing the upload. Good stuff. This is valuable and timely information and thank you for the feedback. Question: how many simultaneous uploads and what size/length of video are typical?
It will vary, but to use the current project I'm working on as an example, I've got 20 sequences that are all approximately 1 minute in length. The source material/sequence in this case is DVCPROHD 720p/30p from Panasonic P2 MXFs, and I'm using the HD 1.5Mbps preset. My computer is fairly snappy, and on these simple first edits, will encode a minute clip in about 6-7 seconds; the upload takes several times longer, obviously. Doing this one-by-one is tedious, and I create a backlog pretty quickly. Once more than one upload starts, the process slows down significantly. Is this a typical project? No, not necessarily, for me or for other companies, but it's a quick way to reveal the deficiencies in the current encode/upload process.
Ideally, I'd love to send multiple sequences to a batch, either within Premiere or through AME, and apply a preset to all of them and have them handled sequentially. What would be killer would be the ability to drag one or more sequences from the Premiere Pro project panel into the CS Review panel and drop them into a waiting Review. One enhancement could be the ability to set up an encoding preset for a particular Review; since I'm typically working with the same video format in a given project, I wouldn't be altering this for individual Review uploads.
While I can't divulge to many schedule details, know that we are actively working on these items. The fun part about services is that we intend to have more frequent feature releases than the desktop apps. 
That's great to hear. I just got off the phone with the producer I do a lot of post-production for, and he's pretty excited about CS Review, too. We don't feel like we're quite ready to deploy it on one of the clients yet (mostly because they're terrified of change), but also because we feel it has to be proven before we can rely on it. It's one thing if your desktop application doesn't quite work the way you'd expect--you can work around it and still get your jobs done, and your clients are none the wiser. However, with something like this, it had better be bulletproof because anything that doesn't work right is going to make clients unhappy--and when clients aren't happy, we don't eat I know you guys get this, and it's obvious in how well the service works so far; we just need to do some more internal tinkering (and hoping our requests will be heard and implemented) before we'll let it loose.
Thanks again for listening, Mike; I'll email you so you have my information.
Cheers, and great job so far,
Colin