You should set the size to 'relative to parent' when exporting for Painter. If you want to use the designer tiling just expose the tiling parameter before export.
The usual way (easily scriptable I reckon ...) would be to redefine the axis/pivot orientation of the main curve, then use parent mode to place the control points easily.
Excellent, thanks Philip! One thing I noticed is each page seems to be lacking navigation links, to get back to the "parent" page. Would be nice to have.
For Maya you can make an empty group and move and rotate it exactly the way you want the pivot to be. Then parent the object to it and freeze the object, it will use the groups' pivot.
Errrr... Better yet, for areaLight1... setAttr "areaLight1.lodVisibility" 0; Don't use the shape lodVisibility. ( Transform will override ) Parent the light into yer object. Grade A 101%