So I've just about got Slackware 9.1 on my laptop working the way I want it. What's left? Mostly customizing ACPI events and such, but hey, at least I can do it by hand and be comfortable that it's working right. Oh, and if people are curious what my Desktop looks like, here's Dropline Gnome 2.6 running with some gdesklets.
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~lbmyers/mydesktop.jpg