Ok guys I have found a much better "head start" than "kix" to use for the base of a mini cd project...get it here http://metadistros.hispalinux.es/

You want the one called "knoppix lite" and dont worry because it has the boot.img for en,es,and de.If you say at boot prompt "knoppix lang=us" it is all us even kde

I removed all kde,psi,zshircii and had pleanty of room to add things like endeavour2,gimp1.2,qcad,xcircuit,icewm,icemc,eterm ,prozilla,spider,gaim,scite,xchat,tinyirc,scrot ,tkinfo,tkman,tkps,dillo (it already has mozilla and links),telnet-ssl,xine-ui,tuxpuck and a ton more.

It's a better start than "kix" because it has zero orphaned libs and not much kde to kill and even "as is" it boots clean to kde and seems to have no errors.The pkg status is also "right".I also replaced the knx-hdinstall script and templates with 0.30 so it runs in english.

Have fun