I'm currently powering up my box with the force of Cygwin, which will give me the power of Linux without hampering me with the command line. I mainly hooked it up to give myself the ability to SSH into the box downstairs (I'm going to Cygwin that one, too) but I was pleased to discover I would be able to run Apache and all other sorts of *nix stuff. I'm looking forward to getting setup finished. I wonder if I'll be able to use it to run WINE?

Note: It's done! I had to reference this page in order to pull it off. I also ended up installing emacs.

Note 2 - The Wrath of Note: I abandoned cygwin and instead followed this tutorial, and it worked like a charm. Cygwin isn't bad, but the tutorial was much slicker, and worked pretty easily. The only problem was the broken version of MySQL control center it's linked to. Other than that, it was smooth sailing.