Thanks - and it was super-helpful. We changed a number of things in the availability calendar and so far properties love it.
One thing I must mention - sorry - do not want to promote here... but we launched "orphaned room functionality..." based on feedback from at least one forum member here, and a couple other properties. I find this little thing to be particularly neat. Here is the deal:
Lets say you have a 2 night min on every night of the year. Customer books Wed-thur night, then another books Sat-sun night... So now you have "orphaned" friday night. It cannot possibly be booked online because it has a 2 night min. On the phone you can waive it, but if a customer does a 1 night search, they are out of luck... this is pretty typical.
So now, if a room is orphaned like this - meaning it has a min stay but that min stay is bumped against sold out rooms on both sides - the min stay can be set to drop off so 1 night can now be booked..