Just wanted to close the book on this one for everyone. I shook out the hive today. It really wasn't too bad, the hardest part was just lugging the boxes down the driveway. This hive was 3 mediums, and I just took each box down along with an empty box with an inner cover. I shook and brushed all the bees off the frames, and put the frames in the empty box, then took that to the garage, brought back the inner cover, and repeated using the box I had just emptied. Unsurprisingly, the drones dispersed VERY rapidly, and the workers eventually flew back up to the apiary and started asking to come into the other hives, and it seemed that most were being admitted with little struggle. When I go out to empty my pollen trap after supper, I'll check again and see what the state of affairs seems to be. Next week I'm planning on making two little nucs from the original parent hive to try again to get a daughter queen or two from this mother, since I really like her. Thanks for all the help everyone!