To sum it all up, everything worked great. I thought having to double click to edit custom fields (hit points) would be a pain but it turned out not to be a chore.
Init tool worked like a charm. I had twenty tokens duking it out and Init tool was my one stop shop to manage combat. Setting timers on creatures was great along with the ability to list the duration of spells.
I think the greatest boon was the ability to define the player group then drop that on any new map the came up.
Other than that, most of the issues will get resovled once IT is better integrated into MT as discussed in other posts.