Waiting for the UPS Truck to Arrive

Well, I am at work and waiting for the UPS truck to arrive and bring the Chumby. When I open the package I will be getting photos together so we can see what this thing is. I have pretty much decided that one of the first things that I will do is take out the micro SD and make a copy of it, just so that I have a way of getting back to ground zero. I also have convinced myself to take another micro SD and setup a development environment under Ubuntu (on my laptop) and recompile the Chumby system onto it. Has anyone here used VMworks player? I might set up a virtual development system on my XP laptop to do the Chumby work. Anyway, I want to be able to reconstruct the Chumby system at any time.