Anyone know of a way to connect to a network with CKIP/LEAP authentication? my office uses this as their security implementation for WiFi and as far as i can tell it's the only authentication method not offered through the connectivity options...this is a total device killer for me.

I am also very interested in a solution for this. My campus is LEAP wifi. I was under the impression that LEAP is a cisco feature on cisco routers and must be certified in order to work, meaning something would need to happen on the hardware end with nokia.

I think it's just a software encryption from the client side. We use standard issue Dell laptops with built-in Intel wireless chipsets...nothing special...but the Intel PROSet/Wireless drivers installed had to be updated to the newest version to access CKIP/LEAP as an option...this makes me believe that it's a driver issue that should be able to resolve through a software/driver update...anyway to pass this on to Nokia?

You could enter it as a feature request here:
https://bugs.maemo.org/index.cgi
but do a search there to be sure you're the first to file a request.