I have been reading and playing with Infopath forms in SharePoint 2010. I have managed to get it to work in a couple of ways, however basic. One way is to create a forms library and upload a form ...

3. Group Fields Logically A large form with many fields can make the data run together and appear jumbled, which is especially true when using the out-of-the-box SharePoint forms.

If your Sharepoint admin isn't daft, PowerShell is the answer. If you have any folks with PowerShell experience (who aren't Sharepoint admins) that aren't daft, PowerShell is the answer.