I forgot to mention that we got the iChat AV working wonderfully with the iSight and our Canon DV camera on two different computers in the same household. Good incentive to upgrade to Panther, so now we’ll see how long it takes my sister to upgrade her computer in Brooklyn.
Also, once I found the right setting, the VPN software in Panther just works. That is so nice. I don’t know if I’ll ever undock the ThinkPad at work again, thanks to Remote Desktop Connection client for MacOS X. Maybe it’s time to ask for a cheap desktop with more power, since I swear I can hear the 3+ year old ThinkPad CPU heating up now and again.