odf: I never sayed Blender interface is mavelous, never sayed is the only program I ever use, I only said that once you get use to it is very eficient, as you mentioned Blender as an alternative to get the UV you want I just wanted to poit you to some starting tutorials, just wanted to help, sorry If you misundertood me, maybe I don't know how to  make my bad english to sound helpfull :-)
By the way most of the time I use Blender and Wings.