My Queries and Requests

Hi Rob I want to appreciate you in developing this great searching module. I've been using it and eying it for about 2 weeks already. I planned to deploy this module in my site, but prior to that I just want to this issues I have to be answered, if you would be pleased.

1. With over 3 Million items in my test site, in 2 days of running cron, only 19% of total items were indexed. How long would it take me to totally indexed my site considering the setup? I just want to know if this module comes with an option for admins to how many items should be indexed every cron run. I still don't receive permission from my client to use poormanscron or automatic cron run.

2. I want to use apachesolr for general search. A search box/field link by default to core search for every drupal site MUST connect directly to search/apachesolr_search. Any idea where and how to do this?

3. Can 2 solr application (start.jar) be run simultaneously? If yes, consider this scenario: If A & B run start.jar simultaneously, then A run cron, ingesting should be exhibited in A's console. Will ingesting be exhibited also in B's end?

4. These issues here: http://drupal.org/node/add/project-issue/apachesolr .. Are these stuffs addressed or included in beta2?

5. Is ApacheSolr Image integration module working? I tried to enable this one time -- the 3 of them -- and after saving configuration, the whole thing was in mess. Can you have complete documentation on this? It might be a big help.

These are so far my queries and requests. I look forward to your timely and meaty response. Again you've done a great job for this and wish you luck for more stuffs you'll create and share.

Thanks