The above might have been an unfair assessment in that NightCafe has a number of controls I wasn't using previously (because I didn't know where they were located or that they even existed). In any case, one cool thing about NightCafe is that they give you 5 (fresh new) free credits every day.In my opinion, NightCafe Studio does a poor job of generating images that actually match my descriptions...
So, I'm thinking this will probably be the software I opt to start with...