Hi, greetings to all!

Thanks to Mr. Knopper for his distri.
After a crash I installed Knoppix3.3 from thge Linux-intern dvd as debian-like system (This was really simple and fast). And I could adapt most things is I want or need. There are some issues remaining: I installed german as system language but would prefer english. I tried to change the locale in knoppix-sysvinit by replacing "de" with "*" for en_US. This had no effect at all.
Another annoying thing is this shadowed cursor.
Which configuration files do I have to edit? Is there a tutorial or guid to change the debian-like behaviour to real debian? Which knoppix-packages may be removed without corrupting the system? (There is a conflict when dselect tries to install sysvinit-rc)

Thanks for helping
macherb