We did more than double our normal output for the challenge week. From roughly 7m per day to 17m per day.
Results status page only keep things there until they get off loaded form the WCG servers and sent to the scientists. This can be any where form a week to a month.
In Progress means WUs that have been downloaded to your machine but you have not finished crunching and sent back the results. Yes, WCG does front load WUs. You can control this by adjusting your cache settings on the device profile you have each machine set to.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ms...viewDevices.do