Any suggestions? I recommended knoppix to people on a forum I use regularly and everyone seems to be stuck with this.
I'm a seriously green newbie at this, myself. After less than a week of playing with Knoppix (1.20.03 release), it appears to me that the floppy configuration is used only when I turn off hardware detection. This works for me:

knoppix floppyconfig failsafe

It also works when using persistent home.