Suggestion for Amazon S3 and static sites

  As part of my server reorg, I now maintain a mirror of the static content of scripting.com on S3. The address of this archive is s3.scripting.com. If you go there you'll get an error message, so please no need to report it. :-)
  This backup includes the .htaccess files, sitemaps, and could possibly include other metadata. If you have any suggestions let me know.
  Uploading the huge folder was a messy operation.
  So here's a feature request for the Amazon team: Allow us to upload a zip archive containing the initial contents of a bucket. That way I can arrange it exactly as I want it, and have the upload take a relatively short period of time. All the tools I use are relatively slow at uploading tens of thousands of files in a single batch.
  Even better of course would be if Amazon could understand the .htaccess files, and even understand a subset of the httpd.conf file. Then we'd really be cooking with gas! :-)