"But yeah, installing all these things at once is probably overkill."

Was for me. Unfortunately, that's the thing that comes up on most searches as "the" answer to networking on Maemo. Just my dumb luck to stumble into the worst nightmare one can possibly find, I guess.

What I STARTED out to do is be able to view my TABLET on my PC desktop rather than the other way 'round (e.g., see "Pocket Controller" for Pocket PC). I work at my desk a lot but would like to access stuff on the tablet so when I pick it up to go, it's ready since I've already been working back and forth on it.

Anything like that you know of?