If you're a coder, tbird10, then I'm thinking you want to play with matmatic even more  It lets you write some pretty heinous shader set ups using Python functions.  Some of bagginsbill's example had 47(!) nodes.  I think you'll find it a lot easier to twiddle parameters from a script file rather than track the "clutter" in your Material room ;-)

If you don't mind me asking, is this for an eventual RMP product?  I was curious what parameters you were using, but I didn't know if you had them hidden for a reason.