I've managed to get the kdeinit autogeneration working with am_edit. I'm reworking the makefiles right now to make sure it's working out OK, but I've gotten through kdelibs now with my new Makefile.am format. Basically, all you need to do is define a program in the Makefile.am and set "KDEINIT = [progname]" and it will auto-generate a [progname].so module and a libkdeinit_[progname].dylib shared library.
Whoo!