You may know about this already, but if you go to :
http://www.projectorcentral.com
And follow a link to the projector you are interested in and then look for a small calculator Icon in the product specs you can enter ONE of:
Distance to screen:
4:3 - diag, width, or height
16:9 - diag, width or height
and it will fill in the rest for you.
So I am considering a Panny TA PJ and entered 115Inches as my 16:9 screen width and it told me the distance range I would use for positioning the PJ from the screen.
Very cool