Please share experience with Report Designer in BI7

I am looking for people to share their hands on experience with Report Designer in BI 7.0.
I have seen the video, blogs, sap documentation, and the marketing materials. I have also test driven it myself. I have found not found it very useful for complex formatting. While I know there will be lots of opinions, I am looking for real life, hands on experiences you have had with the tool and if some of the complex things you have been able to do with it.
Here are some of challenges we are faced with:
1. Need ability to combine data from multiple queries into a single report. For example, one query has statistics and the other has amounts. We need to be able to create averages combining the data from both queries into a SINGLE result area.
2. We have need to be able to create a report where GL Accounts with activity over threshold amount are shown with a line for each account. Any accounts with amounts less than threshold, should be grouped on a line called 'other'. Again, this needs to be combined into a single result area.
When I say, single result area, I mean to be able to calculate amounts using data from both queries into a single result area. Displaying each query separately side by side is not an issue.

Have been playing around with Report Designer and I found it useful for basic formatting but not for the one's you had mentioned in your post.
SAPs suggests you do all the data manipulation in the Query Designer or Infocube and use Report Designer for just formatting the data. In the past we had issues where we could not certain calculation in query designer and have used Crystal Reports along with BI data for similar kind of things which you had mentioned in your post (using sub reports and report level data manipulation). Report Designer unfortunately does not provide any of these functionalities.
I have seen comments from SAP saying Report Designer will be developed further, not sure of any specific functionality whichis coming in. I think it is SAPs first step in the formatted reporting area and may be in the future we will have a tool which can handle much more complex scenarios!
Thanks.

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*** Call stack at first throw:
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          1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x92eea52e objc_exception_throw + 230
          2   CoreFoundation                      0x98226bbb +[NSException raise:format:] + 139
          3   Foundation                          0x93885d02 -[NSPlaceholderString initWithFormat:locale:arguments:] + 99
          4   Foundation                          0x93886e8c +[NSString stringWithFormat:] + 88
          5   AECore                              0x000805da -[ImageSequenceMedia fileURLForFrame:] + 399
          6   AECore                              0x00082908 -[ImageSequenceMedia readImageInfo] + 118
          7   AECore                              0x00080968 -[ImageSequenceMedia isNativePixelFormat:] + 34
          8   StompTypes                          0x0032b791 _ZNK27CExtendedImageSequenceMedia19isNativePixelFormatEi + 47
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          10 Transcoding                         0x004c4ac4 _ZN5stomp17CQTSpitTranscoder16optimalPixelTypeERKNS_18CFilterSettingsRefE + 856
          11 Transcoding                         0x004c5ca3 _ZN5stomp22CQTSpitMovieTranscoder22configureSpitComponentEm + 761
          12 Transcoding                         0x004c38eb _ZN5stomp17CQTSpitTranscoder3runEv + 327
          13 Transcoding                         0x004a8498 _ZN5stomp16CStompTranscoder15_processRequestERKN5swamp18IServiceRequestRefE + 3740
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******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** ************ Experiment 2: Experiment 2: One managed cluster with 2 compressor service instances on seven mac mini. The master controller is not running any compressor instances its just taking care of house keeping. So a total of 14 compressor instances.
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The distributed compressor instances are extremely flaky and their revival scheme of four times(as per documentation) is not enough.
I am eager to know your experience with distributed encoding using compressor.
a) What are your thoughts on stability of distributed encoding using compressor for a large number of jobs
b) Is there an automatic way to revive dead compressor instances?
c) What other tools are out there which perform better? I am looking for a way to setup unmanned operation.
Cheers
-A

Have been playing around with Report Designer and I found it useful for basic formatting but not for the one's you had mentioned in your post.
SAPs suggests you do all the data manipulation in the Query Designer or Infocube and use Report Designer for just formatting the data. In the past we had issues where we could not certain calculation in query designer and have used Crystal Reports along with BI data for similar kind of things which you had mentioned in your post (using sub reports and report level data manipulation). Report Designer unfortunately does not provide any of these functionalities.
I have seen comments from SAP saying Report Designer will be developed further, not sure of any specific functionality whichis coming in. I think it is SAPs first step in the formatted reporting area and may be in the future we will have a tool which can handle much more complex scenarios!
Thanks.

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Have been playing around with Report Designer and I found it useful for basic formatting but not for the one's you had mentioned in your post.
SAPs suggests you do all the data manipulation in the Query Designer or Infocube and use Report Designer for just formatting the data. In the past we had issues where we could not certain calculation in query designer and have used Crystal Reports along with BI data for similar kind of things which you had mentioned in your post (using sub reports and report level data manipulation). Report Designer unfortunately does not provide any of these functionalities.
I have seen comments from SAP saying Report Designer will be developed further, not sure of any specific functionality whichis coming in. I think it is SAPs first step in the formatted reporting area and may be in the future we will have a tool which can handle much more complex scenarios!
Thanks.

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I simply did as i got a tip on FB to do
quote from adobe themselves on facebook "Adobe Illustrator You might also want to try asking on our forums as there are many people that can help there as well! http://forums.adobe.com/community/illustrator/illustrator_general"
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