If you must cut I think you'd be better off going to a maintenance phase with your major lifts and focusing the reminder of your workouts on just creating the proper metabolic environment. It's not too different than what you except that you may not progress very much strength wise but you won't LOSE any.

It is pretty easy to maintain current strenght levels on your major lifts. Something as simple as dong a heavy triple or a 1RM. Even a double. Sometimes a 4 or 5RM. You can do that once a week and follow it 2 to 3 sets of 4 to 6.

I'd recommend once you get your bf down to where you want you try to keep it to 15 or below. Somewhere around 12% would be good. Getting fatter is NOT helping you gain muscle. I still don't understand why people "cut" for any other reason but to "cut" the stubborn fat to get down to ultra low bf% for comp or otherwise.

Maybe check out Alwyn Cosgrove's site for this. He has the idea of basically focusing on strength maintenance then on to more metabolic work like complexes or density training. It's still all high intensity but it will allow you to focus your training on your specific goals without losing strength or muscle (providing diet is right) and it is quite possible to come out the other end somewhat stronger.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.