For a first post that was full of insight...welcome awaginc!
This has been brought up before.
The reason for no centre stand is because of the exhausts. I think the frame is the same as the Bonneville and so hence the hole....for the centre stand for that.
And if I saw a jack for $50 or so...I'd snap their hand off. The cheapest I've seen over here is £75 so as a rough conversion... around $135.
06 America - missing, presumed in bits. With it's TBS wheel... 
09 America - It's very blue....
