1/ I have to periodically re assign colors to tags. Somhow they revert to default black for reasons unknown to me
>> We have identified one issue around this at the time of renew session. I guess you must be facing the same issue. It will be addressed shortly. Closing and Reopening the document should work fine for you at the moment.
2/ characters are missing in the outline tab
>> Looks like some bug. Is it a one time issue that you faced or is it regular?
3/ Syncing between schedules and script seems to be a one way street from the script to the schedule at least when assigning location/studio and set groups.
>> This is actually as designed for now. Since it is doubtful if you want the schedulers to make changes to the script content. We have not seen a very strong use case for this.
4/I am still trying to find out how to populate the "Start of Part" in the scene properties tab and the strip property tab.
>> Has been answered in the thread http://forums.adobe.com/message/4961539#4961539
Thanks