I use the same setup with a custom Control Manager profile but I think I've changed some things in AH stick setup also so It would probably be useless to you. Honestly I can't remember what I changed in AH without looking.
My advice to you is to use Control Manager and create a combined profile. That is, set it up so that all 3 devices show up as one controller.
You have 32 activeX buttons to use along with programming keyboard input. I would map your most common functions to the Active X controls and then use keyboard after you run out. Also, I map the pinky button as a shift key to give each buttons 2 functions, normal + shifted.
The documentation for CM is pretty good. Just go through the help file and learn the basics of programming the controls.
I've written a few scripts to do neat things with the views and the microstick if you're interested.