I don't know how much will help the original poster, but ... does Fedora yet have that tool where you can have multiple people logged in at once, analogous to Windows XP? I have it in Mandrake at home (I think--I never use it). But I forget what it's called.
I don't know about any 'tool', but you can still use 'control-alt-f2' to access a second terminal and log in (either the same or a different user), then use 'control-alt-f3' to get a third.
control-alt-f7 through f9 should swap between the resulting X sessions.
