AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

Hello,
I'm working (hard) in order to make AC7 multilanguage.

It is not simply a matter of translation of the software, but I also need to manage a multilanguage product catalog.

Unfortunately the catalog is not designed for multilanguage. The users who are browsing in English should see different product from those who are seeing the French version.

I did a simple workaround in the catalogue:
I created hidden categories IT, EN, FR, DE etc...
Inside each category I created the real website category, in the relative language.
Therefore I made a change in the catalogue menu in order to show only the subcategories of the current language (it, en etc...).

The problem is in all the other functionalities:
- How can I manage the "Top seller", "Recently viewed", "Featured products" etc... in order to show only the product in the correct language?

This solution has 2 major problems:
- Each product translation is in effect a different product (an it may impact on statistict, sku duplication etc...)
- Each time I need to check product language I need to check the category "grandfather" (langCategName-categname-prodname)

Is there a better solution? Any suggestion?

Thanks a lot for your help.
Daniele