Once the brake hose fiasco had been resolved, it didn't take too much work to finish the brakes.  The bleeding went alright for being my first time, although it did result in a lot of spilled brake fluid on the driveway.  Fortunately, brake fluid doesn't stain the pavement (as far as I know).  The first of the leaks came from me failing to tighten down almost every fitting from fear of stripping them out.  This actually only happened once on one of the small adapter lines between the master cylinder and the proportioning valve, and I was able to get a new line and install it properly the second time.  The brake bleeding went smoothly once all the leaks had been resolved.  I soon discovered the ten-year-old rear wheel cylinders were bad, so I replaced them with the parts I'd bought a month before.  Yes, I did buy new wheel cylinders with all the brake parts, but I decided to hold off on installing them and just use the old cylinders, which "still looked good," when I did most of the brake work.  This assessment was proven wrong during bleeding when one cylinder showed no signs of movement and the other moved a few times before sticking halfway.  Fortunately, I only had to take one of the shoe springs off to replace them, so it wasn't too terrible an ordeal.  After that, and plenty calls of "Pump!  Hold em!" later, I had working brakes.  Well, technically, I still had a bit to go because they barely grabbed until you hit the bottom of the pedal travel.  Then, they locked up.  But that still didn't stop me from taking it around the block once.  I did later bleed the brakes a second time and got the remainder of the air out and a steady pedal.