Nate, here's some pics of a stand I built (supervisors are sitting on the couch...the only one helping me was the short brown skinny guy with the label
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It'll give you an idea of a simple 2x4 stand. I've added some triangle gussets to it as well in order to stabilize it too.
http://share.shutterfly.com/share/re...id=8Tbt3LZoyF4