Other problem w/ new computer: graphics card is a Radeon 8500, but XFree86 support for the 7500/8500 boards isn't complete (i.e. no DRI). I suppose I should have checked that beforehand.

Ok. It looks like the SNMP <-> CIM interface ihas been ruled out by higherups. That leaves me doing, well, no one is quite sure yet. Time to take a look at what changes have gone into the network stack in the 2.5 kernels.