Okay, I’m still interested in hearing more about how the Admin Panel is put together, but–I just found the index.html file in the wp-admin directory. <)
(I’ve been using a nifty work around at work to establish an ftp connection with my server and–neglected to realize that the client I am using only loads 25 files onto the page at a time. Four days of searching documentation and all I had to do was hit ‘Next’… X| )
Here’s to never working in an unfamiliar office environment again.
Doh.