More Imaging

Even this new imaging software has issues.  Man, documentation in the open source world is just horrid.  But anyway, here's how I got it to work:
use the RPMs to install the server software; follow these directions.  You may need to manually install the server RPM after installing the XML::Simple stuff by doing rpm -Uhv --nodep nameofserverstuff  -- Don't ask me why this is needed, it didn't make much sense to me either.

Now install the client software on the 'golden machine.'  Before initiating the golden machine you must install the platform-specific initrd scripts, found here on the golden machine.  They don't tell you this anywhere.

This is where I stand.