Is the breather pipe intact? Mine leaked from its stub (on the side of the gearbox, the right) when the pipe had perished and fallen off. That pipe should go from the gearbox, up over the brake servo and exit just above the level of the dipstick tube.
A leak from there when you're driving can and will send fluid all over the place.
I'm also thinking that perhaps you overfilled it. Check the level with the engine running like so:
Ideally after a run, so that the fluid is warmed through, stop the car with engine running. Put the selector through each position in sequence, pausing to allow the drive to take up in each. Then put it into park and - with the selector still in park - get out to dip it while the engine's still running. If the converter is the actual source of the leak and not a perished breather or one that's not high enough above the servo (LHD car? Maybe the breather will be over the heater motor instead), then there's something wrong, but until you hose it down and start with a clean gearbox and bellhousing area - having ensured that the pipe hasn't vanished - then you won't know for certain where exactly the source of the leak.
The fluid, as you probably know already, must be a NON-DEXRON type, such as the type of Shell Donax recommended in the owner manual which is virtually clear with just the slightest hint of orange dye to it. There are some suitable pink fluids too, so if it's pink, don't assume that it's necessarily the wrong stuff.
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