Monk loadout + weapon questions

[fortior]

Hey guys, I decided to put my shaman on hold and start leveling a new iksar monk because of being on call often (FD pause button) and because I like melees a lot.

Currently he's sitting at level 20 (damage cap just got bumped, woo!) with a fungi, some random hp items I had lying around, and a fbss for haste.

I'm using a tstaff for 2hb and two trance sticks for 1hb. Basically my question is whether it's worth to keep the tstaff around for soloing, or whether I should just get rid of it and buy better haste/better 1hb weapons instead.

Also, I have about 20k left I'm currently keeping stashed away for epic purposes, but maybe putting it towards better haste has more of a priority?

I've never leveled a melee on classic, so I'm going to heed whatever advice I get in here.