cm does let you tweak and combine axes though, if you needed your toe breaks as a single axis instead of two, you could do that. of course if you need all your axes to be merged into one controller, then something 3rd party is needed, because neither the saitek profiler nor the ch profiler will talk to eachother. its just a configuration nightmare is all. you may have to use 3 different profiles in 3 different pieces of software to get it to work, but it will work.
really i would like to see better 3rd party control profile softwares. something on the same level as ch control manager, but works with everything. ppjoy's virtual joystick driver is top notch (it's api is simple too) but its frontend(s) aren't all that intuitive (its easy to compile your own though). but it can only rearrange your joystick functions. you cant bind buttons to keys for example. ppjoy+glovepie is better, because it can make almost any input device into almost any other input device. it can even deal with things like trackir and wiimotes and some other obscure devices, and your usual mouse, keyboard, and joystick stuffs. its scriptable, but its gui isnt that good. it does get the job done though and you only need to fumble around with one application (you dont need to do much with ppjoy, just setup virtual joysticks for the thing to use).