In reply to How many bezier points should be used:
Mark, I remember seeing that in action (I myself haven't used RoboFont yet). Indeed I agree with your hunch that the only reason they would have such a setup is exactly because many (and I think most) people don't like working with TT beziers - or at the very least don't want to learn how.
And I wonder: why not just work in PS and convert? Is the conversion from PS to TT so unreliable that it's worth playing pretend like that? From what I've seen if you follow a couple of simple rules the conversion is always very clean. But maybe there are some dark recesses I'm unaware of (but would of course love to learn about).
hhp