Harb,
IMHO - focus on the mount first. Get a good solid platform that will last you for years. Your optics will change with time. You may decide to mount a 28mm F/2.8 lens for some wide field work or go all they way up to a classical cassegrain @ 6300mm F/22 to get those planets. Regardless of the optics, the mount is the critical component. It also depends on your intentions. Dare I say it, but taking pretty pictures isn't much of a challenge for the mid to high-end mounts - especially with today's autoguiding techniques. If you want to push your mount, get into research. When you start doing supernova searches where you script your mount to accurately point to 150-200 galaxies a night to image, goto and pointing performance is vital.
If you can do both i.e buy the TMB and a quality mount... what are you waiting for...
...Didn't you have a boat to sell?