Cisco VPN client in Ubuntu 8.10

I'm not sure what changed, but I can't seem to get the Cisco VPN client working in Ubuntu 8.10. In 8.04 I'd gotten things working by following instructions like these. Once again, the good folks at tuxx-home.at had a few solutions, but I couldn't get them to work. Either seg faults when it ran or compiler errors and it wouldn't. Anyway, I'd been leery, of trying vpnc since my .pcf files for the SCS at Carnegie Mellon didn't quite look like any of the examples. However, when I eventually tried this decoder with my encoded group password, everything worked out! Now I just use the NetworkManager applet to manage my vpn and it all (mostly) works.