Personally RL I think I'd try and stick with inverted for the time being.
In my opinion service receive is one of the hardest elements of the game - up to a certain point. If you fear receiving serve because you think your opponent will catch you out, you'll make mistakes regardless of the rubbers you use on your bat.
Up to now I've gone through phases of having difficulties with particular types of serve. To begin with it was heavy backspin, then when I started using SPs to learn to chop it became heavy topspin serves to my backhand. Now, granted I use LPs, but I twiddle an awful lot to receive serve too - and I love topspin serves to my backhand, whether I'm using LP or inverted. Bizarrely, I now tend to struggle more with heavy, fast topspin serves to my forehand because the timing is so important. No spin serves to my pimples occasionally catch me out too but that's another story entirely.
If you play and play and play you'll realise that, as CM says, there's only so much a serve can do. A serve can't be both backspin and topspin, nor can they swerve one way then the other - the ball has to follow the rules of the game and the rules of physics! You'll start learning to receive pendulum serves effectively, and then you'll start to realise that generally when a player comes "up" the ball on contact, it'll have topspin on. That's my absolute number one tip - ignore the action, ignore the animated swinging of arms and bats, ignore the ball being thrown 10ft into the air - pay attention only to the contact that the bat makes on the ball.
What I'm trying to say is - stick with learning. Don't use the rubbers as a crutch. When you start to get a bit of confidence with serve receive, your game will improve exponentially - as will your enjoyment. But you've gotta work at it and you HAVE to pay attention. If you half look away when you're receiving serve you will lose many, many points.
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