'Lost' Season 3 spoilers

Did anybody watch the 'Lost' Season 2 finale on AXN last week? I was so 'kan-chiong' that I had to search the internet for news of Season 3. I think 'Lost' is one of the most exciting and addictive TV series I've ever seen. The following are some info which I managed to dig up (beware: for those who hate spoilers, read no further):

- Season 3 is split into 6 Episode followed by 16
- Strong hints about Libby's past being told
- Michael Emerson joins the regular cast in his ongoing role as Henry Gale, leader of The Others.
- Locke and Sayid will band together with some of the other survivors and journey across the island in an attempt to free Jack, Kate and Sawyer.
- The fates of Locke, Desmond and Mr. Eko in the aftermath of the implosion of the hatch are answered.
- Three new characters will be introduced - 2 female and 1 male.
- One of these new female characters is going to be a romantic interest, possibly for Jack.
- Locke will be a very different person in Season 3
- Penny will be an important character for Season 3
- The interrelationship between the outside world and the island will be something that will be a part of Season 3.
- The monster and the polar bear will be back in Season 3
- The smoke creature and the monster are one and the Same
- Are Walt and Michael gone forever? Not necessarily.
- An event will happen mid-season that will blow people away!
- Desmond and Penny’s relationship forms a new seed for a new element in the series.
- Kate will "make her choice" in the first six episodes of the season - presumably between Sawyer and Jack.
- Sun and Jin will continue to celebrate their pregnancy but is the child really Jin's?
- They are going to explain the medical miracles.
- The hyroglypics on the countdown clock are signs of the underworld.

Season 3 will premier on October 4th. It seems that the producers have 4 to 5 seasons planned out, and they knew the beginning and ending from the start. Going beyond 5 seasons would be stretching it, they said.