Multichannel Audio Export directly out of Premiere

So, exporting a quicktime with 8 tracks of discrete audio is critical to my workflow. In FCP7, this was a tedioius process. In Premiere Pro CC, I have figured out the correct workflow, and sad to say, it really hasn't gotten any easier. But I have come across a strange bug. It seems to me that you cannot export quicktimes with mulitchannel audio DIRECTLY out of Premiere Pro, rather you have to queue them in MediaEncoder to get the tracks to properly split out and not just be a stereo mix. Am I correct in this? If so, this needs to be corrected.
AND, I would love to see an easier workflow, for example, a nice easy sequence based preset.
Thanks for your help and thoughts,
Brian

The post cut off most of what i tried to copy in there.  Anyway, we figured it out:
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