Thanks for the link. I looked through a couple of his threads and they are proving quite helpful (for disassembly, etc.). This is most likely going to end up being a summer project.
The only thing that bugs me about this project of mine is the fact that I'm going to end up buying a slew of new parts and probably and LCS. The thing that really kills me is that all of it is going to be purely for aesthetics. Oh well, at least it'll be sexy.