Cleaning up takes on multi-track recordings

Hey all. 
 
So, even though I do lots of comping and am actually firmly in the "I love take lanes" camp, I haven't had to bother with flattening comps a lot. Most of the stuff I do is at least partly based on softsynths/midi and I don't do a lot of comping there. I'm a pianist so I usually retrack or fix small errors in midi. I record lots of vocals but there has never seemed to be a big benefit to flattening comps there since I can do all my edits right within the take lanes and my system doesn't seem particularly taxed by it. 
 
But I've been working on some bigger projects and I noticed some lag with some drum recordings. 13 mics and multiple takes. So I thought I'd do some house keeping since I wouldn't really need to pick and match too much like I'd do with vocals. A few things seem to take too much time the way I'm doing them. Basically, I want to end up with one bounced down version of the comp I made and do away with the rest. What I did was:
(0. Save project under a new name) 
1. Expand the take lanes on one of the tracks, say, kick in.
2. Select the comped view area (either shift clicking to get all bits or right click dragging).
3. Select all other comped areas on tracks that belong with it (kick out, snare top, bottom, etc).
4. Right click the comped area view to choose "flatten comp".
5. Wait until all comps are bounced.
6. Manually delete all other take lanes, then unsolo the comp take lane for good measure and unlock clip data so I can still edit them. The first part of this requires manually closing then opening all take lanes on all tracks, then clicking every single "x" to delete each lane one by one for each track.
 
There seem to be many repeated actions in here. Ideally I would simply select all those tracks, right click and say "flatten comps", and have some optional dialog that asks me if I want to keep any of the original takes (or perhaps archive them). With a single selection and single action I would get exactly what I get now. 
 
I forgot to say that the clips are already grouped, but this doesn't seem to pertain to selecting the comping view lane, which is what I have to do to be able to select "flatten comp" from the context menu. 
 
Help! Who has a better way of doing this? 
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That could work, but it's a bit of a fuss too. I'd have to set up all track routings, pannings and fx again. Thanks for the suggestion though.
 
Is there really not a more elegant way to do this? A button to archive all unused takes? Or at least a way to flatten all comps that "belong together" (via clip groupings) in one go, without having to select each and every one individually?