Better Event Filtering

I'm a relative newbie and in fact wasn't even here for the old "notify of all events" system. I do gather from my readings and conversations, though, that the current notification system is a fairly new one. As such, I expect there to be a few kinks to work out and future improvements to be made. Here are a few of my suggestions:

0) (from another post) "NOTIFY ALL" button - a checkbox that will notify of all events that occur - yay for a "but I liked the old system!" button. Also, if carefully combined with other filters, this could in theory be a "notify for all contests" or "notify for all events by Rini Rampal", etc.

1a) View ONLY NOTIFY events - This would be an easy way for me to highlight my "plans for the evening" (and to try to find a period of time when I can actually log off and do my homework without missing anything. )

1b) View ONLY NON-NOTIFY events - Did I miss something?

1c) VIEW NEW events - Ideally, this would involve a dropdown box with, say, last 30 minutes, last hour, last 2 hours, up to... maybe even as far as 6 hours. It would then show only the events that were added in the past x amount of time. Alternately, it could be a "since I last checked"... but this is inferior IMO and probably harder to build in anyway.

2) I'd like to see easy functionality for REPEATING EVENTS(and if this exists, I'm just missing out...). So many places have, for example, Fantasy Fued at 2pm every day but Monday. I would like to see a "repeat" option on the event calendar that would allow you to choose days of the week and have the event auto-repeat for those days each week. Then in the Events Window, there could be "Notify" and "Always Notify" for repeating events.

3) HIDE this event - Okay, I've read the desc, and there ain't no way, no how. Get it outta my face and let me see what else I wanna do today. (See Repeating Events for added functionality. ;p)

4) Hide all other events AT THIS TIME - This is my event, I'm bound and determined to go - I don't even wanna see what other great opportunities I'm missing. Just show me the events that would "fill in the blanks" in my schedule.

Please, please, please bring back the "Notify all" option, and for new people (maybe you can give them the option for this at the Tutorial Isle,) please give them the option to turn on notifications for all Mentor/Instructor events. I've heard some people talking about awfully low attendance levels at events that once had dozens of attendees.