bibtex style question

I have a BibTeX style hacking question, and am hoping the community at large can help me out.

Here's the problem: I have a set of names of authors. I wish to make two bibtex style files, such that

• In style file 1 (S1) any paper including someone in this set of authors will be rendered normally
• In style file 2 (S2) any paper including someone in this set of authors will be rendered with the author name underlined. 

My current hack was to do the following. I created two versions of a 'names.bib' file. In both files, the names are stored as @strings, and in the second version, the strings are encoded as underlined i.e using \underline{name}.

In my master bib file, the names are entered merely as the string value, so if I stored a name as

@string{me = "Suresh Venkat"}  or @string{me = "\underline{Suresh Venkat}"}

I merely enter the author name as

author = {..other names... # me # .. other names}

While this works, the problem is that bibtex doesn't know (obviously) that the string 'me' needs to be formatted as a name, and so I get ugliness like

"Author, A., Author, B., Suresh Venkat and Author, C. " 

in the final bbl instead of

"Author, A., Author, B., Venkat, S. and Author, C. "

 Now I didn't expect my solution to work, but I don't know what will. Any ideas ?

Consistent BibTeX formatting

I try not to write BibTeX by hand any more: too easy to introduce errors. So I usually use either DBLP or the ACM digital library to get BibTeX for papers. Sometimes the journal has BibTeX, or some format that can be converted. As an aside, IEEE is extremely lame: you have to login to their digital library even to get a citation !

For the most part, I don't need to go beyond ACM or DBLP, which is great. But here's the problem: their formats are different ! I needed the BibTeX for a recent paper of mine, and found it on both sites. Here's what ACM gave me:

@inproceedings{1516372,
author = {Ahmadi, Babak and Hadjieleftheriou, Marios and Seidl, Thomas and Srivastava, Divesh and Venkatasubramanian, Suresh},
title = {Type-based categorization of relational attributes},
booktitle = {EDBT '09: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology},
year = {2009},
isbn = {978-1-60558-422-5},
pages = {84--95},
location = {Saint Petersburg, Russia},
doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1516360.1516372},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
}

and here's what DBLP gave me:

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/edbt/AhmadiHSSV09,
author = {Babak Ahmadi and
Marios Hadjieleftheriou and
Thomas Seidl and
Divesh Srivastava and
Suresh Venkatasubramanian},
title = {Type-based categorization of relational attributes},
booktitle = {EDBT},
year = {2009},
pages = {84-95},
ee = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1516360.1516372},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/edbt/2009},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

@proceedings{DBLP:conf/edbt/2009,
editor = {Martin L. Kersten and
Boris Novikov and
Jens Teubner and
Vladimir Polutin and
Stefan Manegold},
title = {EDBT 2009, 12th International Conference on Extending Database
Technology, Saint Petersburg, Russia, March 24-26, 2009,
Proceedings},
booktitle = {EDBT},
publisher = {ACM},
series = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
volume = {360},
year = {2009},
isbn = {978-1-60558-422-5},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

So as you can see, we have a problem. The formats are not consistent, which means that if I need to get some references from DBLP, and others from the ACM, my references file is going to look very irregular.

Other critiques:

• I have never understood why DBLP splits up the conference and the paper: with BibTeX, if you cite three or more papers that use the same crossref, the crossref is included itself as a reference, which is just strange.
• Unless you use double curly braces, capitalizations inside a string get removed, which is mucho annoying: It's "Riemannian", not "riemannian".
  
• The DBLP name for the conference is too cryptic: who'd even know what EDBT is outside the database community. On the other hand, the ACM citation is clunky, and is a page-length disaster waiting to happen.

Thoughts ?