OK, rotation works much better now than in 7 in that all selected objects rotate as one. Unfortunately there is still the big problem of flipped/mirrored objects rotating in the opposite direction of everything else.
The combine poly feature als…
Hmm, that's not quite as detailed of an answer as I would have liked, but thanks for the prompt reply.
I guess I'll see how it works soon enough, I just discovered my old FM7 installer won't run on Win7 x64.
Off to Paizo I go...