Kingdomcome,
Thanks, got it working despite my "newbie-ness." I still have work to do if I'm going to roll this out to problem users but I still think the basic idea is a good one.
The ideal would be to have a streamlined virtualbox-like "player" w/ a core Linux guest (or BSD, Solaris, whichever is faster and more seamless) that has a sole purpose of giving you a browser w/ java, flash, sound etc...
It would give the Windows-driveby-malware writers something new to chew on at very least.
The Tramp