I finally got enough determination to hack on Planet enough to make it work for me; having already built a shell script to update Planet via CRON, I decided to strip most of the extraneous HTML out of the included examples/basic/index.html.tmpl to create my own templates/planet.inc; a php include() statement later, and GFMorris.net is my own Personal Planet.
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Geektastic.
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