You're like me. You want some simple principles that might make your trip more enjoyable and your line wait shorter. You don't want to go through... OH NO, WE'RE 20 SECONDS LATE ON STEP 22, ON TO 23... WHERE'S 23...AHHHHHHH!!!! You have 8 days to do the 4 parks? that's plenty. We spent 3 days in MK, 2 in epcot, and 1 each in AK and MGM and found that was easy. We took one day completely off and we went to Typhoon Lagoon another. We missed a few shows in MGM and a couple in AK. But it wasn't worth turning around and buying hoppers which would have cost us over $100 at that point just to finish the two up. Besides, the little ones wanted MK for a third day anyway.
Here's a link to find out the best days to go to what park.
http://www.touringplans.com/BestDays.htm
The suggested parks are on the left, the ones to avoid are on the right.
I suggest avoiding all extra magic hours parks. We've found the extra crowds eat up the extra time and more. We had good luck going to a park the day after an evening extra magic hour and the day before an exta morning hour. I think touring plans does too.
We found it was most convenient to make an Adr nearby where we were. For example, on our MK days, we either reserved one in the MK, or at one of the monorail resorts. On our epcot days, we ate at Epcot, etc.
Note that we didn't get hoppers and didn't feel a need to hop. If you haven't really seen anything yet, there's no real need. Those that have been there a few times will probably want to hop more because they will have many more things they don't care about seeing or doing again. As to the timing of your ADRs, they're ADRs. Make them for when you want. If you want something special like a fireworks time, just head on over to the restaurant board and ask. They'll tell you how to do that. One thing though, don't spend time at a breakfast ADR right when the park opens. Either get a before it opens time or wait to get one of the later times.
If you remember just a few basic principles from the UG, you will save yourself a lot of time.
1. Get to the parks early, at opening if you can.
2. If you see a show letting out, DO NOT, get in any lines nearby. They will be double length. Skip em and come back.
3. Whenever you go to a land, hit its headliners first (they'll have fastpasses) and get fastpass if you need to. Then hit the rides without one while you're waiting for your fastpass time.
4. Don't hit rides right by the entrance (even dud ones) as you walk in. Wait til later.
MK we hit FL first. It really fills up mid day and it is the worst land for strollers due to lack of space and due to the fact that stroller parking is all the way where the sky lift used to be. So naturally, nobody uses it and they just park em anywhere. If you hit it early, you can usually avoid that mess.
Peter Pan, and Pooh are your biggies. Dumbo isn't a biggie but it's a very slow loading ride. Same with the cups. So you've got 4 big ones to hit in one land and it behoves you to hit em early. Once that is accomplished, we find we don't need a plan the rest of the way. We find it easier to just finish what you want to do in fantasy land and then get out of there before the crunch really hits.
The rest of the lands only have one or two headliners and you can easily get a fast pass to them, then do the rest of the attractions, then use the fast pass. Since we had 3 days, we went one direction from FL one day, the other direction the other. We got the whole thing covered in two and had the third to hit whatever we wanted. And you don't have to run ragged all over the park. Just relax and have fun. Also our kids won't nap so there was no way we could nap em, then come back late.
We found also that at the counters we wanted, it was best to eat where we were than cross over to the other side rignt in the middle of things.
Afternoon times are nice to sit down for a meal. It's hot. The crowds are at their worst, and they're all riding because they ate at peak time. Zig when they zag and zag when they zig.
Really, there's a wealth of info right here from a lot of people. Deb's site has a new review section for the food too which is nice. And she has great lists on what to pack, the little things you might forget.... All kinds of things.
Mike's service was soo good that last year after reading rave reviews on the Disboards I decided to try TGM again. To say that I was thrilled to learn how to tour WDW is an understatement. My husband says from now on no WDW w/out TGM. Oh and I've resubscribed for our upcoming trip in May! 
Even when you look at restaurants most suggest an early or late meal!!
