Hi Duncan,
It took me a while to get used to Drift alignment as well and i think i can feel the pain. From what i know diffrent people performs the drift alignment in diffrent ways, some may use the illuminated rectice to determine the drift some may use the CCD cam to determine the drift, some may use polar alignment softwares.
Naming a star wont give you a good reference because star position differs from time to time, place to place. But for rough idea look at orions belt it will pass through the areas you want to point at.
I use Starry night software to determine which star would be most suitable at that time and then use CCD Drift align technique to get me close to polar alignment
http://www.ucihs.uci.edu/pandb/hall/polar.htm
Let me know if this suits your way of doing things and I will be more than happy to email you my step by step documentation.