Hi Michael,
Sorry for the delay in a reply but I wanted to get some images together to better illustrate what I mean.

The current way:
Step 1
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/29/step1ld5.jpg

Step 2
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/8475/step2qt9.jpg

Step 3
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/1/step3xs6.jpg

Step 4
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/3950/step4bk7.jpg

Step 5
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/3596/step5azk0.jpg


And the way I was talking about:

Step 1-3
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/3844/step1adz9.jpg

And final result
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/818/step5ib6.jpg

I hope this is understandable :)
I am better at images than trying to communicate through words.