Crossfire 1.9 Updater

Howdy,
want to thank the Crossfire team for creating the most refined, clean, tasteful, realistic, complete mod I have played to date for Freelancer and the only one I have actually enjoyed, other than TNG 1.7 from ages past.
Work of this caliber is rare in professional companies and it is nice to see people that have a passion for quality.

I do have a suggestion/request and a question.
Does the Crossfire Launcher that launches when you start the game update only for multiplayer issues/patches, since you can start a single player mission without waiting for it to download anything, or does it download single player patches/content as well?

My request is for a launcher/updater that has a status bar so you can see the download progress at least per file, preferable per file and total progress bars. Another is if there could be a button to verify current files/check for latest update so you can verify without exiting launcher and restarting. Just little niceties that add a professional touch but I don't know how hard it would be to do.

Also, the main page of the launcher is listing outdated latest news from 2010/Crossfire 1.82. Could it be instead default page of the patches/updates/fixes from the files it downloads with dates for each DLC/DLC pack released so you can see what was fixed when?

Lastly, as of today 2/14/2012
Fresh Freelancer install
1.1 official patch
1.3 FLMM
1.9 Crossfire
Windows 7 64bit

whenever I close out and open new freelancer session, the updater re-updates files #:
15,16,17,18,19, 36,37, 40,41, 119
before saying complete even though it already has done so previously.
Don't know if this is normal or what but it makes me wonder if those files install correctly or not.

Thanks much again for your wonderful work and cannot wait to experience the rest of this wonderful mod and all the rest you have coming in the next versions!

Cheers