I am so jealous that you get to use Scrivner. And yeah, I generally use plain text and then copy-paste into Word to monkeywrench. Thing is, I already did this previously, since I had to turn in the beginning before. And the versions were different.

In short: I was too clever for my own good. I hate it when I do that.

Yeah, LyX has a bit of a learning curve. I've sort of forced myself to learn it, because I've seen it do some really powerful and nice stuff. I can get it to that point right now, but sometimes I do have to go try to hack the package editor to figure out what the hell the LaTeX incant is.