Fran, when you embroider something out on the 830 you can choose to embroider out registrations marks. I'm not sure if you've gone over that or not. That way you can line up the next hooping exactly. The mega hoop is indeed easier for long, thin areas like borders. I would probably choose to do the long name in two or three hoopings.
I'm not sitting in front of my machine right now, but you can select side arrows and top and bottow arrows to embroider out with your design. I've not had to use this feature in a while. But, I believe you embroider out the one hooping then when finished stitching the 830 will ask you if you're finished or want to select the continuation design so you can select that and do the registration arrows. There's also a 830 group on yahoo that would surely answer your question better than myself. Some of those gals probably use this feature every day:> I've only used it a few times. Hope this helps?