workerbee, the launch engines are not efficient enough to get the ship to orbit before running out of fuel. Burn them long enough to build up most of orbital speed and set a high apoapsis, then throttle down and pump the remaining fuel from the boosters into the ship itself while under zero acceleration. No acceleration = no attitude problems due to imbalance. Then eject the drained boosters (on a sub-orbital path to avoid space junk) and circularize orbit using the ship's own LV-Ns. And thanks for the kind words, SmashBrown.