There are missions to get the medical supplies, or I think you might be able to buy them from the crew skills vendor who sells the basic mats. As for leveling, reverse engineer the greens you've made to get blue recipes of the items you've made. That'll keep your levels going until you can get more recipes from the trainer.

Or maybe it encourages the other people below them that their rotation/gear isn't working and they need to spend some time getting better? Unless you know who is sub-par, all of the DPS will get blamed for the failure if everyone stays alive but still hits enrage. Personally, I would rather know when I am holding the group back so that I can improve rather than get removed from the group permanently. We've all sucked at these games at some point, and to get better, we had to know we sucked. How are we going to know when we, personally and not the group, suck without damage meters?

Is there a large currency exchange in credit value between the Old Republic and Episode 4? When paying Han for the ride, Luke balks over spending 10,000 credits saying something along the lines of he could buy his own ship for that much. And yet we spend 8,000 on a speeder?

The cookie cutter sans stockstrike. put those talents and blaster augs in soldier's endurance. Gives you a nice health boost.

Not sure on skype's memory usage but I would be willing to bet that it's higher then vents... But all around, vent is my preference. It was standard in all the games I've played.