Mike, sounds like there is a greater PITA factor involved with starting up a business on your own than I was aware of. Best of luck with everything.
Okay, I understand what you are doing now in regards to cross banding and the technique you proposed to add the cross banding sounds feasible. Let me add a little food for thought for you but before I toss my $.02 on the table let me add this disclaimer: I have some, but very limited experience working with veneer and by no means am I anywhere close to being an expert.
I am not sure if what I am going to offer up is even feasible since I am not sure how large of a table top we are talking about or how far along in the assembly process you are.
Assuming your top is still a flat, oversized, unassembled piece of substrate (plywood?). Why couldn't you prepare all of your veneer by cutting your infield mahogany to it's final size, cut all of your satinwood banding to width (or slightly wider) and miter (I assume) the corners of the cross banding. Once everything is cut to size then use veneer tape to assemble all of the pieces together prior to glueing it to your substrate. If you leave your substrate (and banding) oversized then you could trim the veneered panel to size on the TS. Of course you would have to ensure that when you glue your veneer down that you align it squarely with your substrate.
What type of adhesive are you planing to use? Contact, PVA, hide glue? I recently purchased a small (24 x36) Vacu-clamp system that works off of my compressor and love it. I used Titebond's cold veneer press adhesive and it worked great for some small panels I was veneering. I have a couple of photos in my album if you want to see them.
Well, there lays my two cents. Hopefully everyone else will add in theirs and you will have enough to buy yourself a cup of coffee as you ponder your project.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving,
D L