Hi John,
I haven't used a four reticle finder before, and to be honest, dont really know a lot about them, but i (and no doubt many others) highly recommend looking into Telrad finders... Its a straight-through 'Heads-up-display' style zero-magnification finder. It projects concentric circles of various degrees (0.5, 2 and 4 degrees of FOV), these can be matched to guides on various star-charts to make star-hopping to faint objects from their nearest visible star pretty easy.
good review here:
http://www.backyard-astro.com/equipm...ad/telrad.html
As ive said, i dont have any area for comparison, but that's only because the Telrad is all ive needed.
Hope it helps
Davin