ok, maybe it's too late for this, but I've been playing with that like I said I would; and here is what I have to say about it.

About not seeing anything after increasing the resolution. The same exact thing happen to me I haven't been able to find a solution. I get that problem even if I increase it to just 150. I think, however, that it probably has something to do with my video card. I have a punny little GeForce 2 What do you have?

About the curve in the graph editor. At first I didn't have that problem, but then I managed to simulate it. I don't know exactly what happen or the best way to solve it. All I know is that it happen when I tried to re-use my fluid node to make a new animation. So all I did to fix that problem was delete everything and start from zero. If you are starting from zero and you still can't see it then try selecting "time2" in the hypergraph and then open the graph editor and press "f".

Anyway, here is the product of my 30 minutes of meddling with that stuff :p I'm pretty exited because it's only the second time I play with the dynamics menus :o