What are specific arguments against the ensemble interpretation (as promoted by L. Ballentine)? Leslie Ballentine develops in QM: A Modern Development an interpretation based on the ensemble interpretation, and responds to most criticisms. 
My question: what criticisms still exist against this interpretation such that it is not recognized as the standard interpretation within the physics community? 
What problems still exist? 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_interpretation
 A: There is nothing wrong with the ensemble interpretation. It is the maximum that can be said without shooting oneself in the foot.
Better a late correct answer than never :-)
A: The problem with Ensemble interpretation is that the quantum state of a uranium atom in its ground state, including the nucleus and the electrons, is a property of one atom, not of an ensemble. You don't need to measure the electron position, you can just subject the atom to external forces, and see how it moves. This motion is predicted by the wavefunction of the one atom, not of any ensemble.
It is logically possible to reject this position, of course, but then you are claiming that a quantum description cannot be given to an individual system, and you renounce the ability to map physical objects to mathematical objects so that the behavior of one is isomorphic to the behavior of the other. This is an enormous weakening of the goal of physical science, that there would be no point in doing physics. Also, it throws away the many cases where quantum mechanics makes firm predictions about the behavior of individual systems.
The Wikipedia page erronously claims that Einstein supported the Ensemble idea. This is false, but there is a quote that makes it seem true. Einstein was referring to hidden variables here, and the reason he states it in terms of ensembles is because he believed that the wavefunction described a statistical pattern for hidden variables which is analogous to statistical mechanical distributions. These statistical distributions do not describe a single particle (at least not in a straightforward interpretation), because the particle has a hidden position deep down underneath. The averages of many position measurements require an ensemble, and these measure the wavefunction. Einstein used the term "ensemble" in the context of quantum mechanics to emphasize the probabilistic nature of the wavefunction, not the inability to describe an individual system.
Einstein also believed that the quantum mechanical description of an individual system, inasmuch as it was deterministic, was correct. It was only the probabilistic aspects of the description that required hidden variables, of course, just like classical theormodynamics. You don't need an ensemble to describe the motion of piston pushing a gas, only for the statistically random motion of individual molecules.
A true ensemble interpretation renounces the description of a physical system entirely, leaving only the description of the statistics of identical measurment. It is not what Einstein had in mind, and it is not reasonable in the majority of cases where quantum systems are in their ground state, and changing adiabatically, so that they essentially reproduce deterministic classical behavior.
A: Think of the double slit experiment. It is possible to make the particle beam as weak as you want, e.g. so that you have less than one particle per second. So there is - with certainty - only one patricle in the apparatus at each moment in time.
Nevertheless, the wave parts of the function for each slit interfere. So you can't assume it is an ensemle of particles where the wave functions of different particles interfere.
(@Ron: There is no ensemble postulate at all. The ensemble interpretation was just a try to understand QM, from the 30s of the last century. An ensemble of experiments seems not to lead to such problems, right - but thats not what was meant with ensemble interpretation.)
A: First of all let's agree the importance and dignity of interpretations in physics. An equation such as
$$
\hat{H} \psi =  i \hbar \frac{d\psi}{dt}
$$
or even
$$
{\bf f} = \frac{d{\bf p}}{dt}
$$
is utterly meaningless, from the point of view of physics, until some statement is added as to what the symbols are referring to and how they relate to physical behaviours which can be observed and discussed. So we do need an interpretation in every area of physics.
The question asks why doesn't an ensemble interpretation of quantum theory get majority support. It's because the ensemble interpretation doesn't address what are the real difficulties of relating the maths to the physical behaviours. An ensemble interpretation says, correctly, that things like $|\langle u | \psi \rangle|^2$ give the proportion of examples of a given situation which will yield a given outcome, but this wasn't the really puzzling thing about quantum theory. The puzzling thing is primarily the Bell inequalities on the one hand, and the way individual systems evolve to their own specific outcomes.
If an ensemble interpretation always makes the same predictions about physical outcomes as other interpretations do (and of course it will be carefully constructed so as to do just that) then it will not be possible to refute it empirically. So we are thrown back on people's individual taste. I guess my own taste here is that I don't see what is the big deal about talking about an ensemble compared to talking about individual cases and probability. They see to me to be just different ways of saying the same thing, and the puzzles remain. 
A: The different components of the wave function interfere constructively and destructively under time evolution. Translated into the ensemble interpretation, it would mean different elements of the ensemble can and will interfere with each other with the phase information preserved intact.
What preferred basis should the definite outcomes of the elements of the ensemble be in? Maybe we have an ensemble over all possible bases to avoid being forced to make an arbitrary choice point blank. In an ensemble of Schroedinger cats, there will be bases mixing up live and dead cats.
