Following this guide, I was able to easily and correctly install the drivers. I used to build them myself, but that got me worse results then anything.
To sum up, though:
# switch to super user (root)
su
# install rpmfusion repository
rpm -Uvh \
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm \
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
# install the driver (I have an i686 pc, you might need a different architecture, like 64_32 or something similar)
yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586
# reboot to make changed take effect
reboot
This only got me a 1024x768 resolution, though... Which pissed me off...
I started looking around the internet for a way to fix it in the xorg.conf itself, which I'd done on Fedora 9 before, but didn't remember how (the reason I'm writing this right now), but didn't actually find what I was looking for.
In the end I found 2 supposed fixes, one added a Modes option to the "Display" section of the "Screen" section, and another was to add a DisplaySize option to the "Monitor" section.
Well, I found out I needed both, so I added DisplaySize 1280 1024 to the "Monitor" section and Modes "1280x1024" to the "Display" subsection of the "Screen" section.
Now it's working again, running at 1280x1024 with screen compositing (so I can run gnome-do with docky theme, which I'm trying out for a while).

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