I'm going to induce a freeze when I get home later (about 12 hours from now), so don't think I'm ignoring this suggestion. I will post the results here.

I also want to say that I find it annoying that Apple Remote Desktop appears to be VNC-based, but you can't access it with a generic VNC client. Some say that OSXvnc is buggy, but it seem like the most popular option. Does anyone use that or know of a way to use ARD with a standard VNC viewer?