My wife does work for a local pet rescue organization. We have fostered many, many, many cats while trying to find them a good home while also owning cats of our own.
Most of the ones we've fostered were kittens so as you can imagine we got pretty attached to a bunch of them and now have six total. Yep, that's right.....six. Four males and two females. (We also have two big dogs)
Anyways, whenever we brought in a new one, it would always start out in it's own room seperate from the rest. It would eat on it's own, have it's own litter box and sleep in there as well. We'd bring it out from time to time, let it run around a little bit and let the new kitten and the other cats check eachother out a little at a time.
Over the course of a few weeks it would eventually get to the point where it only went to it's own room to eat.
Slow integration is my only real advice. That, and make sure you have as many litter boxes as you have cats, and clean them daily. Like I said, we have six, and none of them ever takes a dump or piss anywhere but in their litter boxes and they all pretty much get along fine too.
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