Hey no problem, Gary.
Georgio, earlier today I was at a training event held by Ed Carpenter of North American Training Solutions and we discussed almost the exact setup you had in your first system. He didn't endorse it, but he didn't condemn it either. I think his hesitation derived from the possibility of side loading the carabiner against the ring. Personally, I think you'd be fine using that setup. To play devil's advocate, I thought I'd bring it up.
On your second setup, I'm not keen on repeatedly letting any hardware fall to the ground during retrieval. If all you need is to pull it off this once, then go for it (or have a throwline control the descent or whatever).