On my first play, I had everything automated with AE.
On my second one, I decided it was to easy and went only with LP. I also reduced LP power consuption. Makes no sense being so high and having AE at the same level of difficulty. Its just a big sign saying use AE instead!
The thing is that LP and AE aren't too far off as far as difficulty goes - on a scale of "put everything in a magic box and the end product comes out" to "use plain Buildcraft pipes and vanilla redstone for routing", LP is only a bit further away from the former end than AE is.
I might re-enable the BC autocrafting table, because otherwise the cheapest way to craft things seems to be LP.
Edit: Also, does anyone happen to know why I can only get one block of magical wood per craft, regardless of the enchantments I use or their level?
Edit 2: Do torches no longer set things on fire? They don't seem to. Maybe I accidentally removed the mod with that feature (I removed a few optional-seeming mods to reduce lag, like Battle Music and the one that adds those blood effects)