So, rebooted Cecil back into Fedora in hope that OpenSuSE 11.3 turning on wifi would fix it...nope. However, screwing around in the terminal, while iwconfig couldn't get the stupid thing to connnect, dhclient did.
Note I say "connected", not "working". NetworkManager still insists it's not connected, and all attempts to ping fail. I know there's a not-impossible way to fix that in the terminal, and since NetworkManager might work once I degrade it to the old version, I guess I have to look into it...
Okay, no, after another hour or so, I got sick of fighting with Fedora and ended up trying out the OpenSuSE-meets-E17 spin Petite Linux. Its creator hasn't quite finished the 11.4 version, so it's running from 11.3 right now -- but it got me online and came with a fully-functional version of OpenOffice.org 3.x. This also neatly solves the problem of what environment I was going to use since GNOME's moving towards total suckdom.
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