Over-burdened system, under-served department (Score 1)

I worked for a health clinic for a few years that had the most ridiculous setup I have ever seen: On a 533mhz server with 1gb memory and two raid 1 disk arrays we have: a windows 2000 server acting as a domain controller for a little over 50 users, running SQL server, also as an application server for the finance department software (peachtree, then MAS) also serving a proprietary data analytics program which ran a SQL scrub operation nightly on about 2.5 GB data; exchange 2000 server with a third party POP collector (I still don't get what those are for); as a file server and to top it off it was licensed as a small business and back office server, so it was also limited to 50 users (yeah, I needed to learn to count my users... duh) I had a routine that had me going into work at least two hours before anyone else was there in order to do a system reset because one of the applications that interacted with SQL had a flaw that would not release the memory it took up in its night operation without a reboot. This system lived in a closet with an NT server running a single program that operated in a DOS shell and ran velocis database software and a SQL server to provide data to the application server. Also in the closet was a little remote service box (a networked computer running PC anywhere over a modem). The server closet had a slotted door for ventilation, and a small fan to draw air into it. Needless to say that the ambient room temperature was always above 80F. So I show up, the only man on staff, and on a $50,000 grant I completely renovate their small little network into an innovative gigabit modern data crunching machine complete with money saving devices like managed switches, thin clients, open source network service management (nessus, squid, mail gateway, firewall/port forwards, spam assasin)... and then I got outsourced to a 'consulting firm' for the expressed intent of saving money... and has no *nix support, experience or knowledge. I'm sure they'll figure out that was not a wise move. Disgruntled? Maybe a little, but I took the high road and gave them explicit instructions to change all their passwords upon my exit. They never did