I think you need a queue also.  The "five at a time" download doesn't bother me so much as having to immediately sit down and keyword it all.  Also hope traffic will be picking up soon on the site.

I've sold more at Snap Village than at Fotolia.  Acceptance rates are a lot better at Snap Village (so far) than recently at Fotolia, so after months of just letting a small portfolio of images sit there unattended, I have become proactive again and have started to upload and build a better portfolio now at Snapvillage - 5 images at a time!

Fotolia is my worst site - even behind Featurepics and SnapVillage!!!!  I've not been with them very long - but I'm really disappointed.

Yes, I post-process all my images.  I shoot in Tiff and then usually end up cropping a bit, adjusting levels at bit and cloneing out undesirable elements.

For the second part of your question, yes you can make it exclusive anytime after it is approved so long as you are not selling it on other sites.  This is done by checking the box in the "online files" section of your management area.

Been there since just about the beginning.  I've had one image with over 1400 views - no downloads.  The rest have very few views and no downloads.  Have Quit uploading to Albumo and will pull my images.  To me it was a waste of time.