My playing with gpsd so far has entailed starting the daemon with the -D flag so it outputs debugging information and then telneting to localhost port 2947 and hitting R to force it to start outputting data...
as for the lat long readings my guess without having played with it on the empeg yet is that this might be an issue with the fact the StrongArm doesn't use floats...?
I am hoping to get a chance to spend some time getting it running on the empeg next week when I have a week away from the office...
Kim