[jasong]

Chris, wouldn't allowing "the next cycle of actions to appear", "even if the action group itself has not been marked complete" defeat the purpose of next-actions?

I understand your need, and I recognize it as valuable, I just don't want to see OF add stuff that makes it possible to leave open loops.

I don't think OF does very well with pre-planned, well-defined projects. Heck, I don't think GTD does either, but that's not really the point of GTD.