Creating Universes from a SQL Server 2008 Database....Options?

Needing to create a Universe from a SQL Server 2008 DB, I am of course finding it difficult at best to get the ball rolling. Support tells me the only option I have is to use Designer, and to not use the "Automated Detection" features because they are not for production environment use <citing business requirement differences as one issue, as was noted during a support call when I was having problems with our VM server literally locking up while the "Automatic Detection" features were trying to run>.
So what that means is, from what I see, I am expected to manually add all of the SQL DB tables, and then have a Developer spend multiple hours adding appropriate Joins, Cardinalities, Keys, etc. And, whenever there are any DB changes, this has to be done all over again to the Universe to allow for syncronization with the DB.
This really seems like a heavy load to bear just to be able to use SAP. Is anyone else having these same challenges? Are there other options I am just not seeing? Seems to me Builder needs a SQL bridge honestly.
Appreciate any help I can get!!
-Carl

While it may seem disappointing, as long as you have the data schema and knowledge of the joins and cardinalities, then you've got a lot of the easy stuff sorted out.
What you need to provide is a presentation layer that is more than just turning the tables and columns into classes and objects. There are often things that you need to create that don't exist in the database, such as objects for relative dates. These can be found in the thread that I created over on the BOB Board here:
http://www.forumtopics.com/busobj/viewtopic.php?t=152613
Make sure that all objects have a description
Make sure that all dates and numbers have a format; there's nothing worse than creating a report and finding your year displayed as 2,011.00
Use predefined filters - include prompts
Other useful tips are available here:
http://www.forumtopics.com/busobj/viewtopic.php?t=15227
Do you have a set of reporting requirements?

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Kalman,
I've followed that approach, but was getting an error. Hopefully this gives enough detail:
First, I use a .bat file to generate the sql file as you suggest. The structure is as follows:
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