Interesting read, I used a completely different process last night..
Your shot is pretty good, but it has a green color cast, you need to go into Photoshop, go into Curves and use the grey Eye-dropper tool and click anywhere on the moon and it will correct it to a more natural neutral tone...
1: Obviously you need a tripod
2: The longer the better: I used my 300 + 1.7x convertor and changed my D3x from FX to DX, adding 1.5 to the focal length
3: I let my camera do the focussing, although MF works fine too
4: Agree, I also shot in Manual
5: I used 200 ISO
6: see point 3
7: I shot my lens wide open @ f4.8 although if I did it tonight I would go to 400 ISO and stop the lens down a bit to maybe f6.3
8: I would say the first few of those exposures at 1/2000 @ f11 would be very dark. I ended up @ 1/50
9: A couple of shots will find the sweet spot
The two biggest variables in the whole process are stability of the tripod and mirror slap.
I'd recommend using a cable release/or timer and using Mirror Lock Up. That eliminates any vibration from fingers on the shutter button, or from mirror slap.
Shutter speed is an issue as well for the same reaons, plus the moon is moving pretty fast. If your camera has super ISO performance it would be worth boosting that to get a faster shutter speed..
The other thing is atmospheric interference. Getting up high helps, the best moon shots I ever got were at high altitudes in the Himalaya...
Here's mine from last night..
Night Face photo - Available Light Images photos at pbase.com