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Hi Peter,
You live in a nice part of the world. I hope you get these issues sorted.
Norton's is all well and good, but to be honest I get lost in that. Have you got something more basic, like f'rinstance, Wil Tirion's Bright Star Atlas?
What makes you sigh the most? Is it the thought of moving your big scope around, or is it the difficulty of navigating yourself to the things that you want to look at? Either way (and it sounds like both) then your own suggestion of an alt-az GOTO Cassegrain sounds pretty good to me (I suspect a 200 mm Mak will weigh a lot more than a 200 mm SCT). It's probably what I would do. The old 8 inch Meade or Celestron SCT served a generation of amateurs very well, and when GOTO came along it was seventh heaven for quite a long time.
Still, its hard to go backwards in aperture, so if you are attached to your dob, something like an Argo Navis is also a good suggestion. Add a green laser if you can get one.
Or perhaps a GOTO mount to put your existing 6 inch on will solve a lot of your hassles.
Whenever anyone mentions binoculars nowadays (also a good suggestion), I have to put in a plug for image stabilized ones. They have revolutionized how I observe.
Anyway, good luck with it all. Let us know how you get on.
Cheers,
Brian.
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