Hello,
Thanks for the help, it turns out the problem was that when using the lab parameter, simply pointing a browser to the server url and port will still bring you to the basic iOS display, its not until after the /ionic-lab path is appended that it actually shows the lab (Derp!), and because I was running the CLI on a command line only box, I had to go to the served web page manually, so in short, you guys are good!
Love the product and thank you so much for all of your work,
Carter