LAST EDITED ON 05-02-07 AT 10:30 AM (EST)Point by point...
1. This was addressed in their weekly podcast, as well. My thought: Since the fence was designed to keep out Smokey, any effect it would have on humans would be collateral and not intentional.
2. No mention of when it might reappear? Possibly tonight?
3. My guess: Charlie. Not a huge leap, to be sure.
4. I guess I'm off to Yahoo to do research... 
5. I imagine we'll get some of that next week, with the Ben/Dharma flashback.
6. I'm not sure they'll win that. I think ABC is happy where it is. The number of people who either watch it online, buy it from iTunes, or record it to watch the next day has got to be greater than any other show they might put there. Of course, they *could* just put it back to 9, take their lumps live v. American Idol (which would be head to head ALL SEASON since LOST is doing the 24 thing and waiting til January to start) and still have the delayed audience they already have in the 10 o'clock slot. It would just be trading folks who choose sleep over LOST with folks who choose Idol (and Criminal Minds, apparently) over LOST.