My team wanted to use the smart dashboard on the classmate, but couldn't find a way to use it with the Driver Station software. To solve this problem I made a launcher program that will run the Dashboard software.
The only requirements are that you have Java in your system path, and that you can extract a zip file to the root of your hard drive.
Just extract the zip to the root of your C: drive, let windows merge all the folders, and let it overwrite the "FRC Dashboard.exe" file.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/967235/SmartDashboard.zip