In the interim I'll most likely go through the tutorials to get a feel for how to work with it and to determine if my art pipeline fits. Depending on how my models and animations show up i'm hoping to use OGRE, I like it so far.
Outside of the search for a rendering engine, I need to find a physics engine and something for networking too.
My updates maybe a little sparse this month due to moving into my new place but I should really hit the ground running the beginning of next month.
Happy Coding...
Just a suggestion if you find OGRE to be too low level.