Here are detailed instructions on making Blender 2.26 on
Windows from source. I am obtained help from different people
and wanted to very clearly specify what is required:

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~fishwick/blender/make.txt

Thank you. I will try my greedy little hands upon it later today!

BTW, if this works well, then this is exactly what a lot of us artists/half-assed programmers have been waiting for!

Thanks again.