No worries on the ninja, it's food for thought, and a mild ramble helps me figure out the intersection of jamba and keyclone from the guy who made it suits me fine.

I like your idea on using function keys to nail down the focus, since I'm using F8-F12 to do my PiP window swapping within keyclone, if the jamba functionality also piggybacks on that I might be a lot closer to done. I raid as a feral, which isn't one of the classes that you have to master focus or you're a poser, so I can stand to occupy the focus slot.

My thoughts on the focusless leaderless approach is based on the work listed by OLIPCS here Focusless, targetless, 'leaderless' setup. and some of the other variants discussed on the following pages.

My current assist macro (half stolen half cobbled together from the wiki) though I just select the target on my main and hit the button.

/target [target=focus,help,nodead][target=party1,nodead]
/assist


Currently I can go 2 hours nuking stuff and questing and turning in quests without ever losing follow, but stoneclaws won't save me on overpulls as I level anymore, and getting one mob every time won't always be the case.

I like having a target populated so I can see that everyone has acquired it, it also allows me to see if I'm in range and since I use quartz I can check for the cast bar. If I were ever to get into arena then I'd have to adjust away from targeting so I could target one enemy and then use focus to sap someone else after the enemy ramped up to heal my target.

I do plan primarily to run instances and such solo, it got too annoying trying to get my 61 pally ramps runs to get HH rep to honored before questing HH. I also plan to run a mixed group up after these guys hit 60 and gift them to 60 so I can have single 60s for lock, priest, hunter, etc. If time and convenience allows I might run up a second team of something, but my time is a little limited due to small people and wife aggro.

I've considered the symbolic link route, but I need to get familiar with the basics first. Also since I have 2 hard drives with 2 of my MB folders on one and 3 on the other (actually 3 on each so I can reconfig as needed) that may be a little tougher.

I do plan to bring Jamba into my setup, because I have been manually completing quests. At least using 600:450 resolution makes the text and notifications almost legible if I squint a little.

I have more thoughts but this is getting long and I need to go help with dinner.