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Of your original suggestions other than duplicate series, the missing books in a sequence is one that I might eventually consider, though it has two issues I can see. The first is identifying the series increment to know a book is missing. For some people/series they use 0.01, 0.02, 0.03 etc. For "normal" series you have 1,2,3. For magazines you have said you use 2011.01, 2011.02 etc. So how can you differentiate those from someone who has a series of 1, 1.1, 1.2, 2, 3, 5? The second issue is to do with visual presentation of the results but you could kludge something together for that if you can solve the first issue.
As for books with one series, yes that could be useful for people with badly messed metadata I guess. Of course there are genuine reasons for having a book with only one in the series, such as when an author starts a new trilogy or you only own one book in the series and haven't created wishlist items for the rest. However like the "Check title with series" option it is something that just brings the results back and it is up to you to look through and identify genuine series issues versus false positives.
Speaking of which, I suggested on the find duplicates thread an idea I had for the "Check title with series" function which would apply to a Series with 1 book check and a number of other quality check functions. That is the ability to specify an exclusion for a book from a particular check.
For instance I modify author sort on some books to remove co-authors so that both sorting and exporting to my Kindle works "properly" to keep my series together. Those books are repeatedly flagged as having author sort problems, even though I know I am happy with them being so. If I could set an exclusion on those books for author sort then the next time I run that check they will not appear. Likewise for other checks as well. I think this could be fairly useful but is a fair amount of work and would need some menu restructuring, extra dialogs etc. You need to be able to review your exclusions, remove them and so on. It's something i will keep in mind for the future.
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