I know I'm behind on responses guys. I'm sorry! My time has been eaten up lately like a fat man at a barbecue.
I've put together a "solo pool" server packaged up on a VMware machine for home use. Basically you turn it on and point your miners at it and it'll handle all the pool-side stuff so you don't have to mess with changing your miner's soft/firmware.
Here's a link. You need about 100GB of free space (for the blockchain).
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1235123