Comments: Employee Training Scheduling and Materials admin template

Hi all,

I hope that this post eventually finds its way onto the screen of 
Sharepoint's development team.  I have some general comments about the 
"Employee Training Scheduling and Materials" admin template for WSS 3.0.

First: I really like this template and want to thank those who put it 
together.

Second: I believe it can be improved.  So the comments below are 
constructive criticisms (hopefully) and, well, questions (because it'd be 
fantastic if any of you can help me make improvements to this template).

Comments:

1. 
There doesn't appear to be an easy method to send email messages to a list 
of registrants.  This would be a desirable feature so that the event 
organizer could easily send a polite reminder to the list, as in: "Remember 
tomorrow's session, we're looking forward to seeing you there!"

2.
Another limitation we have experienced is that an event in the Course 
Calendar cannot be created as a recurring event.  Upon first thought, this 
seemed like an annoying oversight on Microsoft's part but as we discussed it 
more...the reason for this logical limitation became obvious.  (That is each 
event may have a different group of attendees and I can understand the 
technical challenge to create recurring events which are 'not' identical but 
instead have different properties and relationships for each of the 
individual events).  Nevertheless, if it's possible to build recurring 
events, then it would sure be a nice feature.

3. 
A third limitation is simply that, in our organization, the training teams 
operate courses and programs in a group of "Categories".  These are 
superficial names applied to a 'series' of courses or workshops.  It'd be 
great if it were possible to add a 'category' column to the calendar table 
(and have that column reflected in the 'My Registration' form).

4.
The "People Picker" does not allow multiple users.  This is *almost* a 
deal-breaker for us because many of our training sessions have multiple 
hosts/instructors.  It would great if the "Instructor" column could be a list 
of people (rather than a single person).  (Yes, I realize we can get around 
this by creating 'groups' and assigning the 'group' as the instructor...but 
often our courses are organized by adhoc partners or teams.)

5. and last.  *This is the really important one - best for last.*  The list 
of registrants cannot be edited -- it's read-only.  This is a problem because:
- our administrative assistance must keep track of attendees manually 
(despite the 'self-registration' functionality within this template).  Why   
because our staff get 'credit' for the courses they attend and therefore the 
administrative assistant *must* have the ability to remove people (who missed 
a session) or add people (if they attended but did not use the online 
registration process).

Again...I really like this template and it's *almost* perfect out of the 
box.  If I were able to resolve the issues above then this template would 
meet 100% of our requirements.

Nice work folks!  Any comments/help will be much appreciated.