Doug,
Thanks a lot for the quick and thorough response :-) See comments inline:
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Welcome to the LIGHT! 
Didn't you get a developer tools (xtools) cd with your system? Or were you fetching updates to the tools?
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No, I didn't ... or I do not recall anything spelled out as such, on the bunch of CDs I got with my iBook?!?. I thought I may need the whole package, not only the updates. I was actually unssuccesful in installing the tools from Apple's developer site, last night (though - after downloading the 548MB - no error came up, when trying to install it would complain about part 001, which seemed to have been missing from the site altogether?!?). I will have to do some more digging tonight.
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2. Get Apple's "X11" app, their version of XFree 86. It will integrate X-Windows with Aqua including OpenGl acceleration under X-Windows as well as 3-d acceleration of 2-d window contents (Quartz Extreme), something not offered by anyone but Apple.
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What would be the benefit of this, vs. the "X" delivered by default? I do not want to install really everything from my previous Linux "world" (I may as well have gotten Yellow Dog Linux, then), but rather take advantage of what Mac has had to offer for so many year - nice X. Or are you referring to possible incompatibilities between some old "X" programs, if ported to Mac OSX?
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Why stay away from the case-sensitive version? It's brand new and (relatively) untested. Who knows what kinds of incompatibilities might crop up.
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This may be a bummer ...
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5. OpenOffice.org seems to work quite well on OS X under X11. You could even use the Unix version of (gasp!) Microsoft Office ("Microsoft Office v.X for OS X) if you wish. For a Microsoft product, it's real purty. Also, OS X's TextEdit, the gui text editor, will read and write .doc files.
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I just read somewhere about problems with OO and printing on HP ... oh, well, I will have to try it myself, to see what's going on there ...
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7. OS X's Mail app (starting with OS X 10.3) shows HTML emails quite well and is overall a good email app. You have several other choices. There's Microsoft Entourage, part of MS Office, very similar to Outlook; Eudora, of course Pine and Elm, etc.
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I hate passionately HTML emails. I will have to look into pine or something ... but - again - temporarily the existing email app may do just fine. The need for communication is higher than the willingness to kill HTML emailing right away, on my new Mac.
Thanks again!!!
Stef