> In other words, just because our IP's are from DHCP, isn't there some way 
> to make DNS read WINS (or something... anything!) so we can 'ping' each 
> other by name?  Or more importantly, connect to each other BY HOST NAME 
> for multiplayer games?

Um, I think you want dynamic dns.  There's stuff about this
on the isc web page, I think (they make a dhcp server and client),
www.isc.com (I think).

I have now almost exhausted my knowledge of such things ;-)

rusty