Chris,
In your guide for "Consolidating Audio Files in Fruity Loops", I noticed that there was no mention of removing effects and plug-ins. To my knowledge, FL has never done that automatically and all disabling of inserts must be done manually before "consolidating". I know that's step #1 in your overall guide, but I have a feeling people may overlook/forget about that when looking at instructions for their specific DAW. Just an observation.
Also worth noting (maybe), from my experience in FL, when "split mixer tracks" is checked upon export, the individual mixer tracks will not be affected/effected by any inserts on the master track of the mixer. So if the master has a limiter on it, the individual tracks will not be run through that limiter before being rendered. Not that you should be using many plugs on the master track anyways...
btw I am showing my noob-ness but I've never heard of "consolidating audio files" before now. I thought the generally accepted term was "tracked out". Consolidating to me means combining things, as in, combining multiple tracks into a single track. Isn't that technically what "stems" are?
Peace!
