Ok, guess I should have thought that ssh and telnet were built into it since it's based on unix

I guess there even is an easy way to keep some "bookmarks" instead of always typing the network you want to connect to, right? I'll have to look into that.
I am not doing any design work, so color management is not a big problem for me, and for games, I am satisfied with World of Warcraft, which is on Mac anyways

I am mostly working on php stuff, so the 2 most important tools for me are the text editor and the ftp program. I see people mentioned BBEdit, and I saw that program on tucows, but it is 199$ and wasn't sure if it was worth buying it or if there was something better out there. But if it is the best program for the job, it is not a big expense anyway... Anyways, keep your suggestions coming, and if you know of a program that really helps you in your daily job and that I might not have thunk about, let me know as well;)
Thanks again!