Alright, after being dormant on this for about a year, I think I will have the spare time within the next day or so to:
A. properly merge/incorporate the pull requests that have been sitting pending.
B. check if any other github work has happened by anyone else who's forked this
C. incorporate some new tweaks/improvements I figured out myself.

..that or I'll end up not having time and I'll just get stuck again for several months before doing anything more on this. Hope not.