You dont like the IBM PDKs? I'm using cmos8rf at my university and everyone thinks its great compared to what we previously used (TSMC .18). Anyways...
More info would be helpful. What DRC are you using (Assura, Calibre, other)? What DRC errors are you encountering? It could be something related to your setup and not the Pcells.
The documentation we got for cmos8rf covers a lot of layout and DRC/LVS/extraction topics. Ask MOSIS (if you're a customer) to provide you with any IBM training documents that don't come packaged with the kit (i.e. those that are in /IBM_PDK/<tech>/<rel>/doc and /IBM_PDK/<tech>/<rel>/cdslib/doc). Try asking on
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MOSIS_Users_Group/ to interact with other IBM PDK users.
Schematic-driven layout makes life a lot easier. The PDK comes with pcells (schematic and layout views) for bondpads and esd so you can include these from the schematic level, then generate the layout pcells in virtuoso layout xl and do the placement and routing.