"Extras" descriptions?
 

Well, I've just recovered from staying up all night to find a driver for my modem, which after several reboots from Fedora to Windows and back, didn't work. Part of the experience, right?

Since not much of my hardware works yet, I thought I'd check out some of the 'extras' on the DVD, but can't find anything like a description of what the individual packages are, just the scores of .rpm filenames. Is there anywhere I can get a gander at what the different apps are, you know, with specs, screenshots, comparisons, etc?

You can find descriptions, package names, and other info about the packages from individual rpms, for example:

rpm -qi -p /mnt/dvd/somefilename.rpm

My quess is that yum probably gives you some more civilized ways to find out info, but as of yet I am not familiar with yum. And given package names, of course you can always Google.