I've had good success with my first few rolls processed in Rodinal, though my process was fairly different. I've been shooting some heavy push photography and making a soup with Rodinal and Ilford Microphen. 3 Parts Rodinal (1:25 dilution) and 1 part Microphen (stock), stand developed 90 minutes with 1 slow inversion every 10 minutes @ 65F the whole time, with a water rinse before the stop bath and a 10 minute fix in original Kodak Fixer. The negatives were quite underexposed because my camera's meter isn't the most reliable at such extremes (very dark street photography / concert venues) but compared to some of the rolls I processed in straight Microphen I like the results better. The grain was kept more in control, and the development was an easier, if more time consuming process, with larger margins for error. I shoot 135 and have put Tri-X 400, Tmax 400, and Ilford Delta 3200 through this mix, all pushed to between 6400 and 12800. This isn't as far of a push for Delta 3200 as it is for the other two, but the results for all of them are at least a few printable shots on each roll, which I don't consider to be bad for pushing film so far out of spec as an experiment just to see if its possible.
I intend to do some better lit portrait work with Rodinal as the developer to get the halo effect from full stand developing with absolute minimal agitation in the near future.