After two weeks of non-stop tweaking, I think my MAME Cocktail arcade is finally complete. I created a MAME cocktail project page documenting everything I've done so far with lots of pictures and links to the products I used, and the rationales behind the choices I made.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original blog entry at: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/01/mame-cocktail-arcade-documented.html