number of things that will SUCK for the producers when they decide to get back on track......

1) sasuke becoming evil
ok seriously....the whole point of itachi appearing earlier in the series was so sasuke could confront him and renew his hatred. If they plan to have sasuke be all calm and content while carrying out this mission they're gonna do now, then how's he gonna become evil? just one day remember about losing to itachi out of the blue? riight....besides.....he has to end up in the hospital again so they can fight on top of it. Boy this is gonna be pretty lame for sasuke if he ends up incapacitated yet again.

2) lee getting the surgery
lee better not have the surgery before the genins go out to pursue sasuke. If he does it will take away so much from his dramatic return. However I also cant imagine tsunade waiting a month or however long naruto's mission will last so sasuke can return and become evil.

3) the original team 7 on a misison together
ever since the chuunin exam, the idea was that they start going their seperate ways. Jiraiya is supposed to be naruto's sensei, not kakashi. Now i'll bet they'll come up with cheesy things sakura will do to contribute, even though she hasnt in the manga. lame...

4) announcing the results of the chuunin exam
dont tell me that they plan to wait until after this whole adventure of naruto's before announcing the results of the exam. Shikamaru was supposed to have already become chuunin way back when he was at the hokage's place with his dad. Are they just pretend that never happened, and that shika just happened to be hanging around the hokage building?

lemme know if there's any others i havent thought of...