there are 5 iso files, do I download all of these and put on

[Harry Kuhman]

..... I asked a very direct question and got answers that were not so direct. ..... I stated in the first post that I read the FAQ and did not understand them. Is that sooooo hard for you to understand??? ....

You said you read the faq, but there are a multitude of FAQs, you didn't say which one it was that you read. Markus pointed you at a very good faq to start with, but if you did read that faq you certainly never asked anywhere near direct questions about anything that they said that you might have had questions about. Indeed your post saying

..... i did just burn it to a CD. how do I check if that worked? .....:

implies that you didn't read the faq, or it's not likely that you would have either "just burnt it to a CD" or asked what to do next. You can keep calling yourself a newbee, but it's not reasonable to expect that one line to result in people rewrting all of the help documentation just for you when you don't make it clear what is confusing you. This site is very new user friendly. I honestly was trying to help you (as wes Markus).

I could care less that you ordered and paid for something. Most of us here, including myself, didn't pay anything for Knoppix. It's free software. I'm not at all sure why you wanted to state that you paid for it.

[Markus]

Harry Kuhman might be a tad blunt sometimes but he's also correct and helps a lot of people here. The thing is that most of us prefer to help people to help themselves instead of spoon feeding the information. Hence links to informative pages instead of straight answers. This way you can learn more especially since I have a tendency to forget some part of an answer .
The downloading faq really has all the information needed.
How to download (ftp, bittorrent)
Where from (mirrors, torrent tracker)
How to check the downloaded data (md5sum)
How to burn (software, commands)

Just take your time and read through it. If you don't understand something, tell us the part of the faq which was unclear and what you already tried instead of just saying you didn't get it.
Linux requires you to read up a lot, so if you want to use linux, now is the time to start reading.

[Harry Kuhman]

Harry Kuhman might be a tad blunt sometimes......

Yea, Markus, looking over the posts and sleeping on it I can see that I was getting frustrated, but you and I both pointed this guy to the information he needed, you even pasted the link in your message for him. I mentoned several times the importance of checking the MD5 sum. I tried to get him to enable seeing file extensions, couldn't give him exact steps since he didn't post which version of Windows he was using, but he never asked any questions about it. He just kept posting back that he was new, and then that he had just written the iso to a CD and what should he do next, without any acknowledgement of what we had written to him and no questions if there were any points he wanted more information on. I'm not surprised that my frustration came through.

[Markus]

Don't worry about it, as I already said you were correct about this. Impossible to help someone who won't accept your help.