Stan,
Unfortunately the Cisco WAE only exports optimized traffic through to the Aggregator. So you would need optimized data to get it to export. You would need a regular SuperAgent collector to see the unoptimized data through a SPAN/tap feed.
Other things to check on the WAE, once you optimize the traffic is to ensure that the host filters are the same as the WCCP redirect traffic that the WAE is seeing. You can see this data in a few places.
To address your first question, the "waiting to poll" is totally okay. The communication to the management console is asynchronous. So it's not continually updating.
If I can answer other questions let me know. I'm happy to help.