Ha, I'll pass on the man-love -but thanks anyways.

Actually, when I stated looking back through old posts, it hit me that we (the board) were on to a solution a long time ago.
Especially in this post by SGT. Batguano:
"It may be a Pulse Width Modulated signal, like the speed signal, which is why no one has come up with a soultion to the top speed limiter of our ecu.

I may be wrong, but I've been under the impression that you can use a dc motor controller on a pwm circuit. So, I'm wondering if one could replace the rheostat or variable resistor on the dc controller board with a 4-position switch and four fixed value resistors."

And that's exactly what I've come around to. I found a DC motor/fan/lamp PWM controller that will work nicely, and only cost between $40 and $50.
That unit, a switch to activate MANUAL mode, and a rotary switch (no longer a potentiometer -long story) to select the modes and we are looking at a $75 mod, depending on how fancy you want to make it look.

I'm ordering a PWM controller from Critical Velocity today for testing.