We're going to be rolling out a big patch soon which will make all that a lot easier. Could be worth waiting a few weeks as I'm not confirming anything official, but there is a potential looming wipe on Phoenix in the very near future. Not something I really wanted to do originally, but due to the time elapsed and the sheer disparity between the files capabilities (albeit compatible). Relaunching on our latest file I believe will give us a much larger data set going forward, and give us more time to work on future patches, now that we have a good baseline.
Anyways I think the lite client is the main component you will need on top of the default crystal client to get onto the current test server. We'll be moving to auto patch with custom data client fairly soon, but if you still wanted to try that's your best bet.