ok, so even though the UCS said all my firmware was up to date (well that and the Dell repository is "corrupted", but that's another story) i went ahead and tried to reload all the firmware / BIOS settings.   interestingly enough after the idrac and lcc updated, i can now see the USC from the virtual console..   maybe it's a version limitation?
ok, so i finally got console redirection working on my new server, which is VERY cool (although choppy / slow)..    now i want to know if i can update the BIOS/FW from that console when remote? the LCC option at the BIOS startup is disabled, so it would appear that this is not supported, which doesn't make any sense to me.   can anyone provide clarification on if/how this works?
iDRAC6 / USC / LCC controller update via console redirection