gmaxwell,
I've missed being able to stay in touch with the field. Glad to see that bitcoin has not yet died.

getchaintips looks quite interesting. If I'm interpreting the source comments correctly (I can't compile and test right now) then it matches a feature I was intending to add to bitcoind-ncurses - monitoring forks and their eventual resolve.
Delete bitcoin-config.h and rerun autogen.sh. Also make clean before building. Some of the changes we made have upset the build system for dirty build directories. Sorry for that. Hopefully this will get you going. You may also need to install libgmp-devel if you don't have it currently.