Page Navigation Woes

So I love this tool, and desperately need it for my project. I'm a huge fan.
BUT - I have troubles with what appeared to me to be a JSF idiom re: navigation.
I have had to add by hand (in the source view) of my page navigation something like:
<navigation-rule>
<from-view-id>*</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>Home</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/index.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
<And So On... I have several and they are well formed...>
but in the graphical layout, there is a little red box with an "x" in it, indicating badness.
Is this:
a) a bug (it don't do that)
b) a missing feature (it'll be in version 2.3.4.5)
c) a bad idea all around (because you shouldn't do it for moral/idealogical reasons)
Help? Opinions?
Now the real reason for this (idiomatic mechanism) is to be able to create pages later that can rely on a jspf called something like "MajorLeftMenu.jspf" which has these ActionLinks that can point to the well-known pages in the app that lets you get somewhere directly without having to have explicit links in the page navigation file. Seems like a reasonable design to me, simplifies the page nav file and relies on existing machinery in the built-in nav structure.
Cheers.

It does appear to work at deploy (the Fragment stuff I posted is what's holding me up from testing for sure.). Even if there was a glyph that was what you intend to use when you get it enabled that might be better than the error glyph?
Geary/Horstmann's book Core JSF uses this as a common idiom... (the wildcard in the from-view-thingie)

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