Jonathan,
I was just following your directions with a fresh install of RH 7.1.
When I tried to rpm -Uvh *rpm, I got an error-- saying that I've got failed dependencies:
libhistory.so.3
libncurses.so.4
libreadline.so.3 are all needed by libxml.
I tried several versions of libxml, but got the same error each time. Any suggestions on a fix?
Thanks!