Portal Approvals Process Questions

I have a few questions about the approvals process. These may just be beginner questions, or I am missing some of the point of the way that the approval process is designed to run.
1) Should all users in a group that has Manage with Approval rights be able to see changes made by other users in the same group?
2) If a user is part of group in the approval process, as well as being the next step in the approval process, the user has to approve the item twice.
3) When a user is done modifying an item and clicks "OK" there is no way for any user to make any changes to the item until it is approved/rejected.
4) Approval history is lost when an item is approved, then edited.

hi ian,
1) only the user who makes the changes should see the changes, independent from the other users in this group.
3) in the next major portal release there will be a draft mode for items that allows an user to work on an item as long as he wants before sending it to approval.
4) this is correct. it is only available for items that have been rejected and erased once the item has been approved.
hope this helps.
regards,
christian

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