FM8 + DITA Plugin + DITA-OT --> PDF (without reverting to FM binaries)?

Hi:

Here comes a Big Question: I want to produce a reasonably high-quality PDF without using FrameMaker 8's DITA> Build FM DITABook... or Build FM document... tools to "revert" my DITA XML-based topics to FrameMaker binaries.

By "high quality PDF, I mean something that resembles the book-like PDF output -- including such niceties as front matter files (Prefaces, legal boilerplate), TOC, Index -- historically produced by FrameMaker.

What I've done so far

In pursuit of this goal I've:

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• Successfully "connected" the FM8 plug-in and FM8 DITA to the DITA-OT (1.3.1), then used the plug-in's demo to verify that basic functionality is working
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• Successfully used the plug-in to generate very simple HTML output from my own FrameMaker DITAMAP file that lists three DITA topics files I've created (one each concept, task, and reference topic)
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• Searched both this forum, two DITA related Yahoo forums, and Google groups looking for a coherent answer
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What I don't yet know how to do

Having completed the basics, I'm now hoping to avoid lengthy experimentation and proceed more or less directly to:

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• Constructing the proper sort of DITAMAP file
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• Configuring the FM plug-in to generate PDF output
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• Configuring the DITA-OT to format the PDF pages
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I suspect this is a lot to ask for, but looking for existing information is my first step towards solving the problem...

Cheers & thanks,
Riley