No, I have been around, just too busy to keep up with all the threads. I wish there was a ¡°Status¡± page that could keep everybody posted on progress.
You must have missed the last three months.... and a pair of very long threads!? ;)
To clean that up yes, band pass filters are the option or some very fancy combination of high pass and low pass which results in the same pass band as a band pass.
Generally the in band spurs happen to be extremely weak and as such not a worry other than being annoying on receive.