YES! I stood in line and debated over whether or not to buy the pic and then just asked the CM if I could take a pic of the screen and she said, "SURE!" So I did that a bunch of times!
1) Not true - as long as they are not "rude" hand gestures, they are fine - we have several pics with others making the "metal" gesture and such and that doesn't bother me as long as they aren't obstructing the view of OUR family in the shot!
2) It certainly looks like Pointer fingers to me (and the rest of us reading this thread, apparently)