Well it looks like Dell is finally going to make good on my service contract. Apparently their part backorder problems are resolved, and I just heard from Jeff the service technician who should be here in about 45 minutes.
Now I can get back to working at 1400×1050 and in Linux. The backup laptop I was using was only capable of 800×600 under Linux, and 1024×768 under wintendo
Now if only I could run M$ Project under Codeweavers Crossover Office.
If you have enough resources, it will probably work out better to run the whole Windows under VMWare than to try to run stuff under Codeweavers stuff.