I am able to run the live DVD version of Knoppix on the XP Media edition of Windows XP. The live DVD forum version has been shut down which explained why I couldn't submit to that forum.

I have 1 irregularity - a floopy disk drive icon appears on the desktop, although this computer has no floppy drive installed.

A more serious challenge is that the SHIFT+ non alpha numeric keys do not correspond to the corresponding characters - for example, I have to press the SHIFT 8 key in order to get the left bracket character(it's supposed to be Shift 9). I also can't find the squiggly bracket keys at all. The keyboard icon on the lower right task bar is set to the US flag.

The keyboard is the stand 101 / 102 MS keyboard. Any suggestions about what I can twig to map the characters displayed on the keys to the characters displayed on the screen? Thanks!