My apologies for incorrectly listing Croatia as the host of its first-round 2006 Davis Cup tie vs. Austria. I copied the draw from a secondary website (here's the official ITF Davis Cup World Group drawsheet for 2006) because it was easier to cut and paste, and didn't think to double-check the accuracy against the ITF site.
Austria's home ground advantage certainly lessens the degree to which Croatia is apt to be favored (see my post below, "Fast Court Nation"), but I think the Croatians will still be heavy favorites. Austria will almost certainly opt to stage the tie on clay, but the Croatians all grew up playing on the stuff, even though Croatian top dog Ivan Ljubicic has posted such great hard court results.
Hat tip to Darcy for catching the original error, and to Luke for confirming that Austria is host. Incidentally, I tried to address this last Friday night, from home, but my tired old Compaq isn't up to the task of powering TennisWorld's various editorial and administrative functions.
I'm begging my boss to spring for a zippy PC-based laptop, with an up-to-date browser.