Hey Dana, congrats on the first reporting of the new school year!   

We're just trying out the idea behind the Fermi Tech To-Do List shared on Google Docs -- only doing it for a few schools, and setting it up somewhat different ways at each place.  So we'll be very interested in continuing to hear how it's working out for you, and what improvements you might suggest.

I'm glad to see you've swooped onto the Library cluster problems.  Whatever you come up with that works is fine of course, including swapping CPUs from the cabinet upstairs.  I did think some of the units in the Library might be better than they would seem at first, if given PS/2 instead of USB mice and keyboards, or vice versa -- not that mice and keyboards are well-supplied, I realize.

Sometime on-site let's look at the new wireless system, which uses WPA instead of WEP, with what appears to be a school-specific SSID (network name) and key.  (Which Sara or I can give you anytime, if she hasn't done so already.)   It's doing okay with the ones the installation company handled, using the combo driver/connection-manager client software from the card/antenna company.  Also we've been able to join Macintosh laptops to the network using that SSID and key and figuring out how to fill in the gaps in some instructions we have.  But so far we haven't joined any Windows XP computers to the wireless using just the built-in Microsoft tools rather than the Cisco/Aironet client.  So this is an area for some fiddling around ...

  ==Mitch