I made a post regarding PlanetQuest doing a distributed computing
project awhile back and I see that they are making progress.
PlanetQuest.org is in the Development and Alpha testing phase of
"PlanetQuest Collaboratory: The Next Generation of Distributed
Computing" and limited beta-testing is slated for this winter.  You can
get a glimpse of some of the rudimentary functions of it at:

http://planetquest.org/download/

and check out the following press release (from April 29 2005) which
says that they've gained access to a number of large telescopes and
made some seemingly good alliances:

"PlanetQuest-A Public Science Nonprofit-Acquires $20 Million
British Entrepreneur Dill Faulkes Joins Board and Contributes
Telescopes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PlanetQuest was founded last year by astrophysicist Laurance Doyle,
social scientist David Gutelius, and software entrepreneur Jeremy
Crandell to build free software called the Collaboratory that enables
people to discover new planets and other astronomical phenomena. The
Collaboratory features a transit detection algorithm that was created
by Doyle and two other astronomers a decade ago and is used to detect
the transit of planets across the disc of stars, a technique that has
led to the discovery of five extrasolar planets to date. Using the data
collected from telescopes and the power of thousands of home computers
crunching the data in a process known as distributed computing,
PlanetQuest users will make new discoveries about stars and also find
planets for the first time, while learning about math and science in
the process.

"This is public science in the best sense," said Gutelius, who is
executive director of the project. "It's real people, doing real
science, making real discoveries. We estimate that at least one in
5,000 will find a planet, but the Collaboratory will allow everyone to
discover something."

PlanetQuest will launch a limited soft beta product in the winter
quarter of 2005-06, and eventually plans to enlist data from as many
as 10 dedicated telescopes around the world to serve 20 million planet
seekers. For more information on the project, see
http://www.planetquest.org.

The Faulkes 2-meter telescopes join PlanetQuest's growing observatory
network that includes the oldest professional reflecting telescope in
the world (the Crossley 0.9 meter at Lick Observatory); a 1-meter
telescope at Siding Spring, Australia; the PASS array in the Canary
Islands; and the Vulcan South telescope at the South Pole. The
nonprofit has also been invited to join the observing consortium at the
Calar Alto Observatory in Spain and the SMARTS consortium at the Cerro
Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.

Faulkes, who earned a PhD in mathematics at London University and did
postdoctoral work on general relativity, bemoans the decline of science
education in Europe and has put his considerable wealth into disrupting
that trend.

"I believe that together, PlanetQuest and the Faulkes Telescopes can
make an enormous difference in the future orientation of millions of
young people in the world today," Faulkes said. "Together, we will not
only discover new planets but also discover and promote the scientific
creativity that lies within all of us."

A highly successful investor in software companies, he launched the
Dill Faulkes Educational Trust in 1998 to support education programs
designed to inspire young people in science and math. In recognition of
his contribution to science education, an asteroid-the 47144
Faulkes-was recently named after him."


This project has (IMO) so much potential to help identify targets for
the other Search; please consider supporting it.

Jason H.