Well, I found out a couple of things that were useful in my upgrade to SP2 (and otherwise).
Upgrading the BIOS of my M6805 to the M6811 BIOS posted
here eliminated my lockups/long delays. I made a backup of my current BIOS (in case), but all is well so far. I panicked for a sec when it said is was updating the BIOS again on the first reboot, but I remembered that the site said that happened with another version, so I just let it go. I booted much quicker after that(no long delay).
While I was googling Broadcom drivers, I found someone that said the Dell drivers worked fine for him. I got them
from Dell's Site.
Loaded up just fine and restored the function of my wireless status light (which the HP drivers had disabled).
Well, the HP driver didn't really 'disable' the light, it just made the light flash on for activity instead of stay on
when the wireless NIC was enabled.
To load the Dell driver, I had to 'Updated' the driver and point to the 'AR' folder in the extracted drivers. The setup program didn't see a device that it recognized. Of course, my wireless card is now named 'Dell Truemobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card' but what do I care. I haven't rebooted yet to see if the network drivers still take a long time to load.
Sorry if this was mentioned before. I don't remember seeing it in this thread. The Broadcom driver is 3.40.69.0 dated 4/9/2004.