Hi Justin.

I am just answering the part of your post I could understand.
To get the empeg to show up in the network neighborhood, a (more or less) full implementation of the SMB protocol is needed. This protocol is definitely to complex to be implemented in the kernel. Just to give you an idea of its complecity: The current empeg kernel is about 500k in size, while the dynamically linked, stripped linux binary (i.e. as small as possible) of the SAMBA server (smbd) is over 800k in size.

Now what else did you try to say/ask with the following sentence?
i think for us poor windows user it would be great to just see the empeg in the network hood, or at if not a .zimage something like a .patch would be neat,
Or in other words: What the hell are you asking for regarding zimages and/or patches?

cu,
sven