Renaming within folders AND select case of 'xmp' extension

This is 2 requests.
1. I love the rename, but it would be *so* much more handy if I could point it to the top of a folder and have it rename all files within that folder and any subfolders within. Obviously, it would only rename the files and not folders.
2. Provide an option where the .xmp sidecar files can be lowercase or UPPERCASE. I ask this because the CR2 (Canon) raw files are upper case and on systems with case sensitivity (ie macs) some other tools are looking for UPPERCASE .XMP files but Bridge writes out lowercase .xmp files. The other app, is, of course, iView, the next step in my workflow.
I know I have another request, but I can't think of it right now.
thanks
Simon

Just to add a similar suggestion to Simon's first one--the ability to apply the "replace metadata" or "append metadata" function to a folder and the contents of its subfolders would save countless hours for those of us who handle thousands of images on a daily basis.

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Edited by: MrTiberio on 27/03/2012 06:55
Fixing code formatting

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