Works great. Better than you thought actually.
Couple things
1. only needed to change the driver. nothing else.
2. Moving a copy of the libusb dll wasn't necessary. Although maybe that's because i havent deleted the driver install directory. Ill keep an eye on that.
3. Synapse software is still fully functional. Lighting changes can be done at any time without changing the driver back.
4. Touchscreen mouse of the switchblade screen still fully functional.
5. Driver and lighting survives reboot.
Effectively no change to any functions from before. Actually better: now accidentally hitting one of those dynamic keys doesn't make my LCD layout disappear and have to spend 10 minutes to figure out how to get it back.