I have been able to successfully boot off the knoppmyth cd, then select frontend and after filling in various info (backend ip, database connection stuff)... I have a working frontend.

What i want to be able to do is create a CD that i can stick in a laptop which will boot up such that i don't have to specify all the information each time.

I read the knoppmyth wiki which explains how to setup a diskless frontend. I ran the script and it completed successfully.

But, now i'm not sure how to go about booting off it. I've done a lot of searching and i'm not sure the way i'm supposed to do this... I read up on PXE and it seems like if i abandoned my current router and had my backend act as the DHCP server then if i had certain hardware i'd be able to tell the computer to boot via PXE.

I found various other guides for making a flash drive be the boot disk but i got the impression since there were no instructions in the how to wiki about how to create a bootable client disk of some sort that this must be something obvious that i've never come across.

Is there such thing as a bootable cd image creator that lets me specify the path to the network file share and just boot?

Remaster. Search knoppix.net for details. This is how KnoppMyth was originally remastered from Knoppix.