I work for a few small companies and luckily for me, they are all very strict on their licensing compliance requirements.

A few however did not keep their receipts easily accessible which is pretty much what the BSA looks for. Original CDs, certs of authenticity apparently don't cut it. We spent some time and was able to get all the documentation ready just in case.

Hmm, So far I have had no problems opening up docs, videos and pictures on my SMB shares.

As with 10.5 browsing samba shares has been an issue unless you have (a) mounted the share or (b) type it manually.

Compiling from scratch would be insane. The easiest way to accomplish this would be to put cross compiling tools on a host machine and build your iPAQ or whatever in a chrooted environment. After which you would transfer your build.

$0.02

PS:
Cross compiling tools are part of this project.