A group of Drupal developers are working on a way to automate at least some of the tasks here, and I've had an epiphany that may, within the next week or so, at least make the process less tedious. I still recommend going through this tutorial, though, to understand the nuts and bolts of what goes on behind the scenes, as a learning exercise on working with these modules, and because hey--Why wait a week or two when you can get things going now, eh?