Thanks to the irreco group. Except for the stuff mentioned above, I've had an excellent experience. Connecting to my router's lircd was just about point-and-click. This app is likely going to be 2nd only to the browser. I'm still in shock that my remote's lircd funtionality was waiting for me at remote editing. Isn't that kinda sad?

For anyone who's interested, I've posted my OpenWrt lirc and iguanaIR Makefiles over at the Kamikaze forum under this same handle. The iguanaIR Makefile is a little half baked, but it can get a tinkerer where they want to go. Phase I.