Smart Object Sampling Technique.

Hope I named this topic aptly. I'm pretty new to the whole up/downsampling technique thing. In years of web design, I just never had any real need of it.
However, I ran into the following scenario:
We have a big PS file full of pixel art & photographs, some of both are smart objects. We'd like to resize a bunch of them, but need bicubic for some, nearest-neighbor for others.
Is there any way to set sampling techniques for each smart object?
(If not, where does one post feature requests? ;D)
Cheers!

First you need to know th all smart objects are not created equal.  An embedded smart object is a copy of something "Photoshop" can be just about anything Photoshop supports.  A Raw with Raw settings,  A PSD file, A Layer, A layer set etc. Smart Objects can resized two ways. 
The first way is the re adjust the transform associated with the Smart Object Layer (Ctrl/Command+T).  Transform I believe uses your user id Photoshop preference for interpolation. When a smart object is resized this way Photoshop first renders the pixels for the smart object the resize those pixels like a raster layer using your default interpolation method. Even if the embedded smart object is a vector or text graphic. I guess you could set your Photoshop preference interpolation before doing each transform.
The second way to resize a smart object is by editing it in Photoshop and use Photoshop Tools.  You do this be double clicking on the smart object icon in the smart object layer in the layers palette. When you do this Photoshop or ACR will open the embedded smart object in Photoshop as a temp work document in ACR the raw file with its current ACR settings applied.   Use the tools approbate to resize.  For example if the embedded smart object was a PSD file use menu Image>Image Size. Check resample the size and interpolation.  Text and Vector layers will be resized using vector graphics or change font size raster layers will be resized using the method you set. When you commit the resize In ACR or use menu File>Save in Photoshop the embedded object in the smart object layer doubled clicked on will be update with the changes you made.

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