I like your initial reccomendations. I like trillian for chatting, and InfraRecorder looks pretty good as well. I don't see a need for coretemp and cpu-z since they're updated so often and they only need to be downloaded to run and not installed. If you can fit 3dmark in there, I'm sure that would save us a whole bunch of time downloading them seperately. Anyway, I can't wait.

Also, will the service installation of BOINC be the 64-bit one?