SirAv- duh! why didnt I click on your homepage before I remember downloading your boot camp-ani a while back and being very impressed. Great work! Nice site too, its now on my favorites list

M- I totally understand what you are saying... here is what you do:
open your UV window&your poly planar mapping window(mapping direction=camera)

1:select all the faces of the object you want to map

2: in the perspective viewport menu= show/isolate select/view selected

3 deslect all-- then select areas that are mostly planar (like a side of the face)dolly around so you see all the planes in the viewport

4 in the poly-planar-options window click apply

4b then viewport menu= show/isolate select/remove selected

5 in the uv window, select all the uv's you just mapped and move aside... way aside

6 repeat, and move your uv's around-merge uvs-etc

sounds harder than it is... you get a more managable set than if you automapped it.

whew*