And there was much rejoycing! The MS patches this month are pretty minor on the server side! Only one really counts:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-008.mspx

And we do have at least one Media server like that. But I can do it merely after hours and not in the maintenance window. So I don't have to stay up until 1am tonight and patch 32 servers like I was fearing! Woo!