During the season, the only page I have found that gives the GM an overview over Free Agency status is the Legacy page "Free Agents". You need to learn the power of Search webpage. You can search for Player Roster, Goalie Roster or Player Information for Free Agents for the next 5 years.
Strange that you're the only people who computer reboot in the middle of the STHS simulation with the perfect timing the simulation was done, upload but not saved.
If you send me your STC file by email, I can transfers into a STH file but you lost some data, league transaction, team transaction, referee and the most important, your league/team record. Up to you to decided if losing all this information worth it versus resimulating a day.
Waiver is not supposed to work in off-season mode. That why you see it a bit weird for the first season
With the data of February 24th, I have send Luukkonen in the farm using WebClient and load it. He wasn't send to waiver.
Sadly when I wrote this code in 2005, I had a hard limit of 10 in the SHL file. So it can't be change.
When the code to write the WebClient was done, because it has a SHL file, there is no limit.