You also were able to diagnose and make slight tweaks on the fly to your squat - which means you know how it *should* feel and developing good kinesthetic feel for it.
I think Cha has been posting recently about doing single sets with DL. Someone else maybe mentioned what you're talking about and reset each rep but I think the scheme Cha's doing involves actual rest (not just a reset) after a rep. So you do like 12, 1 rep sets. Whereas you're doing a really long set.
When I was retooling my DL I found resetting was helpful to a point but I also think it's good to be able to just pause long enough to take a deep breath, set your lower back, tighten the **** out of everything and then pull. B/c I think that's the way DLs are "normally" supposed to be done (vs. touch-n-go or completely resets). Although on high rep sets I seem to do a reset when I take my belt off (stupid belt lol).
Also, congrats on getting your DL to your Squat! I'd assume you should be able to DL well b/c of long arms....I'm not sure if this is true but I'm trying to talk myself into this to keep moving my DL and become a DL monster.
Videos man! Videos!!