Tentative update to Minimum System Requirements:

Intel ATOM 1.6Ghz or faster.

1GB RAM

Windows XP Home for Ultra Lowcost Computing

 800x600 min resolution (the specific device I am targetting is 1024x600).  16bit or 32bit color.

*** I believe that 1.6ghz is probably a reasonable target clock speed.  If we can run successfully lower than that, that's great, but I think that the target clock should be right around that anyway.  Like I said, I have a specific device in mind.

*** The invite still will be coming soon for the staff player association.  I'm testing things now, and will send it off as soon as I am sure that it is working.  Long term, the Wiki and blogs will have a visible change as well (authentication will be for all of BattleBazaar.net/BattleBazaar.com, and not for individual pages). 

 *** Part of the delay is that I want to make sure the web features as they stand are "working right."

* Launcher requires the "Install Software" permission on Windows.

* Patcher requires no permissions on Windows.

* Content updates do not require patching (at all).

* Launcher requires root to install for all users on Unix-like operating systems.

* Patcher requires a setuid process on Unix-like operating systems.

OK, so I was working on getting crossfire working again after some update knocked it out, and having no luck.  Some sites suggested uninstalling Service Pack 1 -- let me tell you now, save yourself a lot of grief, do not uninstall service pack 1.  That turned out very badly, incredibly badly.  The argument is that a Windows component has been damaged, and maybe that fixes it.  However, sfc /scannow will have that same effect without costing you a couple hours of recovery -- and it won't actually fix the problem in all cases.

 So anyway, I decide I'm going to reinstall the drivers -- catalyst install manager doesn't work though, and so I look up and again I see crazy advice on the Internet, so here's what I try:

Start > Control Panel > Classic View > Problem Reports

Report a problem with Catalyst Install Manager

Voila, it tells me to go to KB961894 for a solution.  Here's the download page:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB961894/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2067

This fixes it, but per the discussion, there might be other issues with using the hot fix.  I hope that this saves someone else some time.