I'm a little confused about the question, actually. I just skimmed over f.montoya's thread from last month...
http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=122241
...and it seemed that there was a general understanding of how they should work. What's the real problem, aside from a lack of an official response? Is it that no one really knows how MLEs work yet, or that they're not working in practice like they should?