2 Projects -- Need advice/suggestions

Good Morning Everyone: I have 2 projects on tap this week (among a ton of others) that I could use your input on. First is setting up music sharing for iTunes and my iPod on a fedora core server. It has been suggested that the proper way to do this is to use HOWL and Daapd. I have looked over the websites for them, and it seems ok, I was wondering if anyone had done this, and any comments / suggestions / gotchas that I need be aware of. Also, if you know of any good "cookbook" style procedures out there, id appreciate it. The second one is Jabber, We need an instant message system in our building, and as far as I can tell Jabber is the way to go. The server will be Fedora Core 3 (my production web server) I have dug around the net and found a large number of jabber implementations, I am looking for one that is simple to set up, maintain and use. We will be interfacing with either Trillian (free) or Gaim. If anyone knows of another server / service that would be better, please let me know, im open to pretty much anything at this point, again as above -- any problems etc and any good procedures are always welcome. Thanks Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14