Here's
beta-g It addresses many of the issues raised for Mac [I hope] - feedback please.
All of the listed options should work - except for the GPU setting which usually seems to hang Octane no matter how you set them.
You don't get an animation option unless you have at least two scenes to animate as start and end frames and step=1 !
It needs iE [or Mac equivalent] to make the tool's dialog which is a 'webdialog'. It's only been tested with iE 8 on PC, although I know it works on Mac too. The iE line error refers to YUI for the sliders [yui.yahooapis.com/3.1.1/...], which is called over the web first time, so you need to have an internet connection at least the first time you run the tool after that it'll probably stay cached somewhere...
Please remember this is the 'beta' version so your feedback and comments are appreciated, so we can iron out the wrinkles...