I got everything worked out and now have a nice lighting set up to show WIP stuff. Thanks Pixar and the Renderman dev team. Making this available for free and integrating it with a free 3D modeling program like Blender is awesome!
So, Pixar has made Renderman available for free for non-commercial use (o_o) AND they’ve added Blender integration via an actively developed plug-in (0_0) Rynee likey!