Would Nodequeue help with this task...?

I am the webmaster for a website that has major sections controlled by views. Each week, various nodes from the different views get promoted to the front page. On the front page view, nodes are sorted by date/time with no stickys. On the major section views, stickys are allowed. However, we run into a problem if I change the date of a node for the front page so that it moves to the top (i.e. a couple hours before that event). When you look in the major section that it originates from, the stickys are still at the top, but then the node whose date I change may have climbed up and over other things. To fix this after the event is over, we would have to go in and first, unpromote to the front page, and then change the date/time on the node so that it moves back down the page!

That's a lot of work!

So, I'm wondering if Nodequeue would be the saver here. If the major section creator made their oh, top ten list for their section, and then promoted the node to the front page. That would give me the ability to change the date/time for my purposes without messing up what are the items on top of their section. Is this correct?

My second question is if on this major section view with Nodequeue activated, where do the non-nodequeue nodes go? Are they just moved down the page under the ones which are in the queue?

Thank you!