Building the training account has gone very smoothly. It took about six years to get the test account set up. OK, maybe 3 weeks, but it seemed like six years! The training account has taken less than 5 hours. OF course not there are over 300 patches to apply. Still, it is really nice to have things work as advertised.
There is still the issue of PERSON indexing in test. You can't look people up by name, just by ID number. Details. Datatel is looking into it.