Of course this is all IMO, the world could split tomorrow and none of us are promised a second here on silly project Earth. Worse case scenario, the Earth gets sucked into the black hole as soon as I post this and a majority of the Earth's populace perishes in Hades, but who wants to think about that?
Your timeline is nice but I'll be happy with no freeze and financing. The rest will take care of itself and by 2012, we will all be sailing, golfing...retired.