Shifted to a PHP 5.4 / Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit box
Improving Xdebug setup to do remote debugging back to our main machine
Adjusting things so we have PHP ini files for cli and apache
Adjusting imports so we don't need frontend override files setup
Getting backend setup in Apache

I wanted to use an Alias directive, but that didn't work for some reason
Tweaked backend config to allow loading without override files
Added a symbolic link from the frontend to the backend