Rob,

I did as you suggested and burned a cd...

It starts up...gives the penguin picture and says I cant find the cdrom now...so Im going to give you a mini linux prompt which you cant do crap from. It then gives me a list of 7-10 programs it can run. Nice touch - giving me a prompt even tho *I* screwed up...

I did give it the boot .img (otherwise I never would not have gotten that far).

I did check the cd within windows to verify the files were all there...further I did not error out within Nero when burning the cdrom.

The *ONLY* thing I can find that is different is that the CD volume name on my disk was "KNOPPIX" where the it calls for "Knoppix". My Nero version will NOT allow me to use lower case CD volume names. Is that my problem? Im going to find another cdburner program that will allow me to use lower case names....can someone verify that Knoppix is sensitive to the volume label? If so, is there a technical reason to enforce the CD label name?

Thx all! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! Ho! Ho! Ho's...for everyone!