Thanks for all of your recommendations!
After logging several hours on the phone and joining multiple airline programs, we decided to give the folks at upgrd.com a shot at it - and it paid off (at least as far as I'm concerned)
Our itinerary is MCO-JFK-DXB with a 2 night stopover, then DXB-BKK with a 2 night stopover then on to DPS. We come home through SYD and LAX without a stopover.
We're going business class the whole way and it came in around 450K miles/points, so we're satisfied - and looking forward to an awesome few weeks.

Thanks again for your help!
- Chuck