DOCBOOK-APPS: Word 2000->DocBook Effort

Disclaimer: I'm new to the DocBook and XSLT world so please don't hold
me too accountable for my actions!

We have some documentation requirements within our group that are of
a fair size - not huge, but significant  enough to require multiple
books (as well as eventual profiling).  Most people in our group are
not too technically savvy and would not want to delve into DocBook - particularly
if it required learning another tool (let alone the cadre of tools supporting
DocBook).  This led me to try to come up with a compromise where I
could get what I consider the positive capabilities and solid infrastructure
of DocBook while still providing a means for our internal users to write
documentation.  Here's what I have:

A Word 2000 stylesheet with DocBook-ish styles (a very small subset at
the moment) - this is saved as HTM

WH2FO (like tidy/jtidy: strips HTML into a type of XML) to get an XML

XSLT to transform to a valid DocBook XML/SGML

openjade/saxon, etc.

I think I have shown myself that it's a valid concept - it serves
to turn MS Word into a pseudo-XML generator.  I have written transformations
for section,sect1,sect2,para,simpara,orderedlist,itemizedlist,procedure
(step and substep), figure, programlisting, and a handful of character
type markups (filename, code, etc - these are easy so I haven't done too
many) and maybe a few other block-type elements.  I think callouts
will be easy, too.

My question is - do others think this is a valid concept?  If so,
would anyone be willing to join forces to move this along?  As I said,
I'm a complete novice in this and though what I've done to now works in
producing PDFs (other than the insidious extra line in <step>), there
are undoubtedly better ways.

Thanks for any feedback -

-- Andy