How to change the speed of transitions between animations?

For example, when my character is changing stances or beginning an attack, he moves too slowly in between animations. How would I adjust the speed when torque is animating the character from one animation to the next? Would adjusting the timescale of the animations also affect the transitions? I haven't toyed with that yet, but I'd need a way to speed up the transitions independently from the animations themselves.

Also I was wondering if there was a limit to the number of animations (dsq) allowed. I read there was a limit because of the buffer size and that it had been "fixed" with 1.4, but I'm not sure what they meant by "fixed", and if there was still a limit I need to mod to get in my 100+ animations.

thanks :)