I think you should talk them into a daul woodcrest 5160 w/4gb ram 73GB 15k RPM RAID 5, and a 100mbit port <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I recently got one for work and let me tell you the new woodcrest procesors are INSANE <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Oh, and I think a change to CentOS is in order to <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

-TOdd