Quote Originally Posted by WastedFX
Well I know how root works.
Root is just the administrator level user.

Quote Originally Posted by WastedFX
I set a root password via the root term with the passwd command. It seems to use 510 megs of the ram. so I don't see a problem with that.
Exactly what command did you use? It should have been 'sudo passwd'?
You could also try
su (to become the root user)
konqueror (use konqueror if you are just going to copy/move files)
OR
kwrite (use kwrite to edit text files)

You will not be able to edit text files using konqueror as root because konqueror must open kwrite to do the edit & konqueror-as-root is not able to open kwrite-as-root. It cannot pass on the root level privilagles to the second program.
Another way: if this is a file you are going to repeatedly edit, copy it to /home so you can edit as user.