ok i downloaded the ISO, burned it onto a CD, i booted from it, detections, yadda yadda...
then the knoppix "Linux in use" wallpaper comes up, a little while later some system initialization splash comes up, it goes away, and now nothing is happening. the wallpaper is still up, but there is no toolbar, nothing to signalize KDE is running. what's happening, and how do i make it work?

EDIT: after about 10-15 minutes, KDE finally started showing up. is this a normal load time? or is there something i need to do to fix it?

my machine is a 2 year old compaq presario 2500 with a P4 2.4, 512 ram, cdrw, floppy, and winXP pro. it has i believe either a 24 or 32 gig hard drive, and i think it was all partitioned for XP, whatever best buy or compaq does to their computers (i know, never buying a compaq again, or buying from best buy).