Well, the issue with the 3D seemed to be that that the xorg-server-1.4.906 release wasn't quite good enough any more, and that I needed xorg-server from git. This of course means dependencies on other git libraries as well as re-compile all the x11-drivers ... woohoo for me. But the plus side to all of this is I got my Compiz back. I really like the Scale and Expose fucntions.