The first problem I'm not sure about as I have not experienced that (grant it that I do not have any packages setup). As for the second issue (marking a file as featured), the language on that is a bit misguide. It should state "Suggest this to be featured." When someone clicks on that, it simply flags the file to be featured in your admin panel located under Feature Requests, which is in the Video Management category (at least, that's what it's supposed to do).