I recently got some butterflys bars from nashbar for my utility bike, a late eighties MBT. Have tried everything else, drops, tried all sorts of stem lengths, various riser bars. Always felt wrong. Finally got what I consider to be the dorkyest looking bars I could imagine. Freaking love them! Climbing finally feels good, and they have lots of places to move my hands around on.
The only thing keeping me from putting them on my other bikes is that the utility bike was the only one giving me problems with fit and comfort. I am really considering them for a couple others though.

You are building your bike in a co-op, right? Try the treking bars, using some cheap friction thumb shifters and whatever levers you can find. Nashbars are cheap, but Amazon has them as well. If you like them, get some good trigger shifters or whatever you like, and good levers.
If you hate them, you can start building up some drops to do a bar swap.