I was on the design team at Baron Services prior to my job here, and I am intimately familiar with VIPIR and how it works...

Yes, VIPIR (or more accurately the custom version of the MM5 that is displayed on VIPIR) it anticipate the more rightward motion of Charley about 24 hrs prior to landfall. I was running the model and I actually have video of me, the night before, calling for a Ft Myers landfall based on this. While the stations that had VIPIR did have this information, not all of them used it..or didn't use it well.