Got my AA Punkbuster working!

Context - Migrated from my /. journal:

I run gentoo on my machine at home, a good gaming rig. I believe I used the gentoo ebuild from portage to install Americas Army 2.10 on it. But I kept on getting kicked off of servers! My punkbuster was what was causing it, but when I tried to update it via pbweb.x86, I kept on getting a message saying that it couldn't do a binary conversion.

See, what happens is in /opt/americas-army AA gets installed, and in ./System/pb the punkbuster stuff is held. You put pbweb.x86 in there, chmod and run it, and you should be ok. Only no dice.

So after some extensive investigation, I come to find that I'm (a) missing a directory in ./System/pb called "dll", which I assume is what was causing the binary conversion problem.

Also, unbeknownst to me, ~/.armyops210 (or something like that) was created, a directory. In there I found System/pb as well, only this one had the "dll" directory. I ran pbweb.x86 in there and was all set. Volia! I was able to play.

I didn't bother to try creating the "dll" directory in /opt/.../pb, but I imagine if I did that the binary conversion would have worked as well. What I'm dubious about is if the pb is being taken from there or from my home directory. I may experiment, if I can remember to.