Wow, over two months since a diary entry. I must not be doing anything worth writing about. :^)
I've actually gotten a production Linux server in use where I work now. The odd advantage about working in a place that is in the "stone knives and bearskins" stage of computing is that we don't have much established infrastructure, and people here don't have the MSFT religion. So I'm (mostly) free to adopt the best Free Software solutions.
And I've actually submitted a patch to gnome-print in my Copious Free Time(tm); now to see if it gets accepted ...