change allowing division by type and therefore multiple presets per setting

Let me preface this request by saying I think imagecache is really cool and since I'm really a designer more than a developer I don't know what's involved in this sort of undertaking - although I imagine this would be a huge and fundamental change to the way imagecache currently works and therefore a lot of work. That being said, here's my dream for how imagecache could eventually work:

Imagecache Admin would be divided into something like the following:

• Types (ex. size/scale/shape, color, overlays, etc.)
• Presets

Then of course:

1. An admin would have the ability to either create types (maybe - unless predefined types eliminates conflicts)
2. An admin would have the ability to create presets that belong to a given type

On a given site I might create the following types and presets for example (these are arbitrary examples just to explain the idea):

• Type: Size/Scale/Shape
  • Preset: Thumbnail (60x60 pixels)
  • Preset: Landscape Small (120x240 pixels)
  • Preset: Landscape Large (240x480 pixels)
  • Preset: Portrait Small (240x120 pixels)
  • Preset: Portrait Large (480x240 pixels)
• Type: Color
  • Preset: Desaturated
  • Preset: Red
  • Preset: Blue
• Type: Overlays
  • Preset: Watermarked
  • Preset: Gradient Glow

Then, on cck field display settings or on view field display settings, instead of a list of the various imagecache presets to choose from a user would be able to select one preset of each type to use, and perhaps separately select the outcome (ex. link to node, etc.). So if I was building a view of user profiles I might want an avatar type image field shown in my listing with each user, and I might add the field to my view and then check both the Thumbnail and Desaturated presets for the display and also check the option to output as link to node.

I realize that the types may need to be predefined types that can't conflict (rather than letting users create types), I'm open to that.