Hidden Hippo

The exile is in the Audience Chamber I believe. It can be found at a T-juction near the start of the area and has a corridor with 4 of those security droids and 6 (I think) blaster turrets. I suggest making sure you have someone with Force Lightning and aim at the back turrets, that way you can take out lots of enemies at once, or at least damage them.

Don't you have to transfer control to the central console before you are able to break down the force field? Even if you don't, the lightsaber should work when you just select Use Lightsaber/Bash.

Don't you get a saber part if you help the Ithorians on Telos, or am I making this up? I could have sworn that I got one there. Otherwise I've found that a combination of Korriban (it's easy to get the saber part from Lorna Vash there) and Dantooine/Nar Shadaa after that (along with the part from Visas) is a nice quick way to get a lightsaber.

As said, they both respond well to violence. I seem to remember something about Kreia causing people to gain influence as they react to you.

I've only played through once on Xbox and then I only trained Handmaiden. I'm getting it delivered on PC (I don't like the Xbox controls) and I'll probably try and train Atton and Handmaiden, but leave the others as non-jedi characters. I like the idea of Atton as a blaster weilding jedi.

I like the HK sniper line which has already been said. To be honest, with a dark side character, anything with HK47 in is likely to be funny.

I used two singles for Revan in KOTOR I and for the Exile I used a dual bladed silver saber the first time through KOTOR II. I'm planning on making a nice Sith Lord and using a single, ability boosting red saber to remove the hit penalties of using 2 sabers.