Thanks for that.  Looks like I got everything installed.  Just now realizing why you didn't include Bitcoin in the guide - it's not necessary for mining in a pool (RPC).

Is there any way to test my GPU hash rate without a pool?  I installed Bitcoin using the guide here: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6299.40 and I created the bitcoin.conf file but I cannot get solo GPU mining to work.  Just want to test out these GPUs.  

./poclbm.py
No device specified or device not found, use -d to specify one of the following

[ 0]   Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         920  @ 2.67GHz
[1]   Cypress
[2]   Cypress

$ ./poclbm.py -d 2 --user user --pass password
Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC

phoenix$ ./phoenix.py -u http://user:password@192.168.1.2:8332 -k poclbm DEVICE=1
[14/05/2011 16:01:57] Phoenix r76 starting...
[14/05/2011 16:02:00] Failed to connect, retrying...
[14/05/2011 16:02:18] Failed to connect, retrying...
[0 Khash/sec] [0 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [RPC]

Specs:
Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit, Radeon 5970