Thanks! You know I was thinking about doing just that. During the test fitting of it, the loops coming out of the STI Levers and back into the bar tape kinda looked goofy, almost pointless. A voice inside started telling me to just run them as normal.

Thats the one thing I can't believe Shimano hasn't done anything about.... My next Groupo is going to be Campagnolo just for the cleaner cable managment, and the non moving brake lever.

In fact, had I known I was going to change as much on my bike, I would have jumped ship to the Campy side. At first I was going to just rebuild my hub/cassette and do the STI on the cheap. As things go, you get in deeper than you had initially planned.