Just found a new free font from megaco FontFont, Erler Dingbats, which is meant as a modern replacement for your prefab Dingbats font. Read carefully, there’s a difference between FF Dingbats 2.0 and Erler Dingbats, most of it being the extensiveness of the set, and the rest being the price.
The free one certainly looks great and could be useful, and I checked the EULA, they’re cool with embedding in “documents, applications, and devices.”