Using a nightly build of the new MakeHuman program as a guide, I was able to make this in about ~2 hours, instead of all day like before, although instead of relying on some decimating script and much tweaking afterward, I did this by hand.
The mesh is actually very simple, not too many verts and nothing crazy.
I suppose if I glued the fingers together this could be made into a new civilian body or something...
I still suck at making character heads, though.