Resources for Using Premiere Pro CS4 and Encore to author Blu Ray DVDs

I am getting ready to author some Blu Ray DVDs consisting of HD video of various aspect ratios and formats on the same disc. I have Premiere Pro sequences that are either 720p30 and 1080i (60i). The 720p video is 1280x720 (1.0) 60fps. The 1080 footage is mixed with some of the 1080i (60i) sequence video being 1440x1080 (1.3333) at 29.97 fps and some at 1920x1080 (1.0) at 29.97 fps. I haven't mixed the formats into the same project. I've kept them in separate projects because I'm unsure what would happen on export and whether I'd suffer degredation of one or the other if I dumped them together into the same timeline.
The final Blu-Ray project would consist of a bunch of menu items with each item going to a specific exported video of a specific format and/or aspect ratio. After playing around the Media Encoder for a couple of hours looking for an export setting that would preserve the video quality as close as possible to the original source video, I've settled on using the MPEG-2 Blu-Ray format using either the HDTV 1080i High Quality or the HDTV 720p 59.94 High Quality presets, depending on the format of the original video that I'm compiling.
Before I start firing up Media Encoder though, I need to figure out a couple of things pertaining to authoring Blu-Ray and what I can and cannot do. For example, can I have mixed formats on the same disk (720p and 1080i) as long as the the 720p video exists in one file and the 1080i exists in a different file? Looking over the Blu-Ray settings in Encore CS4 it's not clear to me and so far I've found nothing in the help file that says definitively that I can't have multiple file formats/aspect ratios/frame rates in the same project, though the way the New Project menu functions it suggests I can't.
Another question I have is would it behoove me to upgrade to CS5 or does it not make a difference whether I use CS4 or CS5 in terms of trying to accomplish what I want to accomplish? And if anyone can point me to other resources on this subject, that would be helpful as well. Thanks.

I use BD-RE disks.
First i make an iso and test it on the pc. (virtual clone drive and Power dvd)
Then burn with Nero to RE and test it on a standalone BD player.
If the RE passes the test i burn the iso to BD disk again with Nero (i am still on version 7)

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