I have a quickstart I made using AROD/Garlon database V1.2 but copied over the pre 1977 years with the Lahman DB so the previous years stats were correct. I have made no ratings changes to the players imported. Also I imported the career and most of the season leaders from lahman so I would have mostly accurate leaderboards. The players imported to fill the leaderboard were listed in free agents but I gave them all CEI's so they don't sign with any teams.
If anyone wants to improve the quick start and share it thats fine with me.
Download link here:
http://rapidshare.de/files/22897724/1977.quick.rar.html