> 1. What does Rebol 3 bring to the table in terms of aiding the user (as opposed to the developer) that Rebol 2 did not?
Rebol3: Unicode compatibility and the entire graphics/gui subsystem implementation were the major changes from version 2. Don't know how complete the OS4.1 version is. GUI was windows only for a while.
Rebol3 was still under much development last time I looked into it.