I was sitting, wondering if I should look into running samba "wide-
open," as it were, such that machine names aren't needed. And then
I remembered the time before where I just typed "ftp://thunderbird"
in the address bar in IE and it looks just like another folder in
Windows Explorer.

I'm done. :-)

So I made a user "user" on Thunderbird, and have declared it "The
Server."

The PHB's new $1800.00 puter came in today, and I got as far as
letting windoze update do its thing (38 critical updates since
SP3!). But earlier, when I asked him what he wanted to name it,
he first seemed a little discombobulated. Or maybe just confused.
Anyway, he settled on "boogeyman." I thought that was kinda cute.
So tomorrow, when I show him tcpdump, I'm going to ask for more
money. :-) That's covered under the gnu license, right? I can
resell the skills that I got for free?

Cheers!
Rich