I haven't spent a much time at all looking at what omen can do. Just when to show/hide it and changed the bar look a little - but I can't seem to recall anything that looked like it changed the default layout look... I'll have to look again.
And MSBT looks exactly like Parrot...if I continue to have problems I'll certainly try it. I've spent the vast majority of the setup time getting Parrot to do what I want it to. The only two things I need to do now is clean up a little clutter and get profiles to work right (it really only seems to work under "default" which leads to problems for me switching characters and even situations. Data I want displayed is different in raid than solo...). I spent even more time working on it this morning prior to your post. So I'm a little hesitant to abandon my efforts at this point. Thanks for the suggestion, and I'll store it for an "I can't take this anymore moment".
(As a last small note, for what I wanted, which is almost more look than function but with a couple of needed things...Xperl seems to be better for me than Pitbull, so while frustration made me make that switch, I think it was the right move.)