Big wet kiss for the three headed dog & panther
So much happy! Panther seems to include a working kinit and Kerberized telnet client. So i don't have to use SSH anymore. If this means absolutely nothing to you, then you obviously didn't wait 18 months for this, nor spend many hours attempting to port MIT Kerberos 1.2.x to MacOS 10.1 or 10.2.
Woot.