Well I went with the stainless steel sleeves mostly because I couldn't confirm what it was my builder was going to put in. Plus my neighbor complains about his umbrellas blowing out the sleeves often on the windy days. These sleeves have optional caps that fit on umbrellas poles and thread into the sleeves. We'll see how this expensive experiment actually pans out.
Now I'm on to two big (for me questions)
1) Should I add more light to the pool? Not necessarily to make it brighter, but to have different effects of lighting. Right now there is a Color Effects bubbler on the ledge which looks pretty lame when it's not bubbling if the lights are on. So I'd like to (A) add a Globrite to the shelf. Second, the PB missed where I'd drawn the light niche for the 5G and put it at the end of the pool rather than the side. I've gotten kind of fond of it there. I was thinking though of (B) another 5G-SPA or (C) Globrite at the opposite end of the pool amongst the stairs.
2) Looking at the pad it looks like the bubbler is the last on the manifold with the three sheer descents first after the main valve. I'd like to be able to turn on the water features independently (i.e. the descents and/or the bubbler). I think if I ask them to swap the last manifold connection with the first (i.e. the bubbler supply with the 1st descent), then I can put an actuator on the first manifold valve and (with a creative repositioning of the lever) either block all water into the manifold, block water downstream into the descents and allow the bubbler on, or block water into the bubbler and allow it on to the descents. Sound good?
I totally blew it. I have a GoPro and didn't think to do what you did with it during our build. 
