Proper merging of new face detect tags with previous tags

Hi,
In PSE7 I had thousands of photos tagged with People tags. The way I had my people tags was somewhat odd but it worked very well for me. For example, I had one tag per person for popular poeple (my wife and daughters) but I also have one tag for one group of people (i.e. The Smiths, or my daughter's friends) where the tag would be placed in any pic with "any" member of that group. This way I did not ended up with hundreds of individual people tags and it was very easy to apply the tags.
Since I wanted to try the new face tagging feature in PSE8 (which I liked and thus will continue to use), I now have my old people tags PLUS the new face detect tags. For example, I have two tags for Claudia, my daughter and so on.
Q1: What is the proper way to merge these duplicated tags? Should I just add all the photos from the old people tag to the new (face detected) tags by dragging/droping the new face tag icon to the selected pics?
Q2: How can I make my group tagging strategy work with the new automatic face detect tagging? which is basically a one tag for one person kind of thing.
Q3: Since we are on the subject of smart tags... I don't see the value in the auto analyze feature and thus would like to erase all those smart tags (high quality, blur, etc). Is there a way to delete these tags without deleting the face detect tags?
Thank you very much for your help

Q1: What is the proper way to merge these duplicated tags? Should I just add all the photos from the old people tag to the new (face detected) tags by dragging/droping the new face tag icon to the selected pics?
Yes. Note that when using face tagging, you can type in the name of a pre-existing People tag and PSE should use that tag (at least it does in my catalog). But you need to type it in exactly -- otherwise, PSE will create a new one. Once you've typed an existing People tag once into face tagging, PSE will then "auto-complete" it in the future.
Q2: How can I make my group tagging strategy work with the new automatic face detect tagging? which is basically a one tag for one person kind of thing.
I think you need to bite the bullet and create one tag for each person. But the auto-complete tag-typing feature of PSE should make that easier than when you had to painfully scroll your tag heirarchy and drag over a tag.
Q3: Since we are on the subject of smart tags... I don't see the value in the auto analyze feature and thus would like to erase all those smart tags (high quality, blur, etc). Is there a way to delete these tags without deleting the face detect tags?
Does anyone see the value of Auto-Analyzer? :-; To delete one of those tags, check it to show just the photos with that tag. Then do Edit > Select All, right click Remove Keyword Tag.

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