Great post. Just one follow-up thought.

Rands, you say, "And if you don't have a list of questions lined up for me, all I hear is: YOU DON'T WANT THIS JOB."

Some of the guys seem to take this the wrong way. Here's the bottom line, as I see it: maybe it should have been "if you don't have questions... YOU'RE NOT RIGHT FOR THIS JOB."

People approach things like this different ways. Some folks are the kind of person who will go as far as to think through questions they have at this stage; others may feel like questions are premature or presumptuous, while still others may not be the sort of folks that think of questions in the abstract.

What is clear to me from your statement is that you are looking for a certain kind of person (or think of it as personality) apart from skills and desire. You want a driven, forward-thinking, confident self-starter. My guess is that everyone one your team fits this description. If an interviewee's personality is not of this sort, they won't make it past the screening.