Request for publishing options in bulk edit multistage process

I imported a big set of taxonomy data using category_legacy and was mortified to see the newly imported containers and categories splattered all over the front page (I haven't yet figured out if a taxonomy import overrides the publishing options set for container and category at administer>>settings>>content types)

Looking around for a way to demote these categories, I quickly realised that the administer>>content interface in drupal is useless for bulk editing of this kind (there isn't a 'select all' checkbox after you have done the filtering), so I went to category bulk edit, hoping to select each container, select the publishing options NOT to promote to front page and then get rid of these nodes, but publishing options isn't on the list fields.

I am sure this is by design because those options are handled by the node module, but since drupal's admin interface does a bad job of handling this, I wonder if it may be useful to make this part of the bulk edit process to bail out category module users in situations like these.