1. I'd like a new "internally generated tag" to go along with date(year) and date(month): date(numeric_month). This would always be two digits, e.g. 01 for January, 02 for February, ... 12 for December.
You can do this one for yourself. I made mine for photos, using year - month (yyyy - mm).
Open MC, click on tools > options > library then click on the "Add" button.
Give your field a name, I called mine filenamedate. Pop it out of the way in the "calculated" category.
Over on the right hand side of the dialogue, select "Calculated Data" and then paste the following into the template field:
formatdate([date,0],MM)
OK your way back out of there. You can now use [date (year)] - [filenamedate] to generate the directories you desire, and you have the freedom to use it anywhere else you so desire.
If you can't see yourself needing a two digit month field anywhere else, then use the following template instead:
formatdate([date,0],yyyy) - formatdate([date,0],MM)
and that will give you the directories you desire from a single field, [filenamedate]
I personally would not like to have MC doing the auto date thing you want in request 1a. No date is better than date created if you ask me.
You know you could get the year info from [date created] copied into your [date] fields with very little effort if you wanted?
as for #2, I'm not sure, i thought MC turned them back on after it closed?
they're turned off because that navigation noise keeps firing when you use "track info" display options.