Thats a double pole double throw switch. Used for side to side or front and back. You can control 2 valves at once with those. Or just use a single side like you said for individual control. The center 2 are your feed the top 2 corospond with the top portion of the switch and the botom are for the botom. How many do you have? if you have 4 you could use those for f,b,s,s and get some single pole double throw for the individual and a quad pole double throw for the pancake.
EDIT When you price out all the switches you would need you will notice that a switch box from jason will be the same price or very close. I belive the 4 pole double throw switch is almost 20 bucks.