Hey, thanks for your reply!
1. The thing is that the content in the primary and secondary sidebar is different, I’m using them as submenus; For posts, I’m using primary sidebar and for (some) pages I’d like to use secondary sidebar.. So I could use the three column option (secondary sidebar, content, primary sidebar) – except that I don’t want the primary sidebar on these pages.. Was this any more understandable?
2. Yes, I tried that, but then you can’t control where the content breaks – unless the excerpt you want to show has the exact same number of words in all featured pages..
(pretty much the same thing that’s asked about here http://catchthemes.com/support-forum/topic/change-position-of-read-more-and-how-to-add-line-breaks/#post-58607)