Yea, you certainly can't blame him for wanting his hard work to be protected from theft.
On RSP, what you can do is dial in a starting point that comes very close to your CO starting point and store it as a custom "appearance". Select the appearance on the first image and copy everything you need to all images. From there you should be able to follow a workflow similar to your existing CO workflow. RSP has 2 contrast sliders and CO has 1, other than that I think it is the same number of controls. I think RSP has more controls available without having to change tabs.
I think the important thing here is that the conversions from RSP/CE for the 5d are very good, so it is a viable workaround while waiting on profiles for CO.
PJ