After all those years i still suffer on a item 2) 🙂
It is clear, that BeoSound 5 is designed the way that when you power it on it immediatelly starts to play last song, which I personally hate. For example, when you are in the mood to listen some relaxing lounge at the evening you have to start with the loud Disco that you have listened last time during the party.
On a Beo5 I should be able to choose the N.Music and add the PAUSE command to the same button (did not try yet, but will do soon).
But since I often start N.Music from iPhone why not to add the possibility to start BS5 silent? or at least add the PLAY and STOP buttons to N.Music interface.
The another 3) issue is that you can use Beo4 color buttons with BeoSound 5 to choose the favourite set of songs, but you cannot do it from BeoLink interface, as well as numeric keypad, when you choose the (assigned) N.Music UI. It is most porbably the issue of not supported BLGW. Do not know if it is fixed in newer BLI interface.