Finally have equipment on the way. The Dual Layer DVD writer with Lightscribe that was the only surviving piece from my original set of orders showed up yesterday to irritate me :-)
I got a quad-core processor and an Intel "Bad Ax" motherboard (at least the guy in some tech video says people call it that). Should be a fun machine build - haven't put one together totally from scratch for quite a while. It'll have 4 gig of RAM and a 750 gig SATA drive. Should be halfway decent for running VMWare Server.