I'm sorry it didn't/doesn't work! And I seriously would come over to your house, except the plane ticket would probably be too expensive.

Actually, you should seriously consider grabbing someone you know who's Knoppix-saavy and have them come over and walk you through it. That was going to be my next suggestion.

AFAIK, there's no way to get rid of GRUB except to install another bootloader in its place. (As the GRUB FAQ says, there's no "uninstall" for GRUB -- you just install another bootloader like LILO.)

Believe me, if you've successfully installed Debian Woody, installing Knoppix is a lot easier. I'm not sure why you're having all this trouble.

The closest thing I know of to an install tutorial is this Kanotix installation walk-through. (Kanotix is a Knoppix remaster -- a very good Knoppix remaster. You might consider it.)

Hopefully, one of these days I'm going to rework that walk-through for Knoppix and post it to the web.