Can you please add a compiled armoryd.exe into the download package? That would be really great for us newbies!
No. Using the daemon means you know what you are doing. If you cant run "python armoryd.py" from the command line, stay away from this.
BTW, can a new Armory wallet be created via RPC?
Yes.
if not, is there some other external way from outside ArmoryQt?
Create a wallet on whatever machine that can run ArmoryQT, take the wallet file to headless machine.