Ah-hah !!!
Even more encouraging/good news - great.

In the meantime I have been looking into Carl's suggestion and found that Amanda SOHO has direct options for the 124i and even natively supports the voicemail-only mode I am aiming for - wahoo !

Better still - it's only about 1000 times simpler than the NVM deal and is flash based; how cool is ALL that ?!
The doggone thing is small, inexpensive, draws little power and has very nice capacities (can you tell I already read it's nice, short, concise docs ?).

Thanks Very Much.
I genuinely and sincerely appreciate you nice folks who've pitched in to help me here and now I feel like there is definite movement in a very positive direction with this system.