Right...
IP5 User auth system works, counter works, journal display works. That'll do for my first assault on the project; now I can sit back and think about how to make the rest of it work, drop some notes into the developer's journal there, and relax a bit; just had a call to say
kboyd is coming over to assuage my boredom, and I'm feeling better, so things are looking up. More penguin-bashing in a week or so, perhaps.