I tried installing it over the weekend and ran into a few problems so I uninstalled and what not because I needed my computer for school Monday... but here's the problems:

1) It was reading the fat32 partition, but not writing to it
2) I couldn't change the grub... or anything else in the root directory, and it told me I wasn't allowed to log on as root.

I haven't tried your instructions yet, but if I do, will I have to edit root files? If so, I need to know how to make them writable.

*EDIT* One last thing I forgot to mention that might be important, I installed it in the Beginner Mode... not sure whether that's important, but I thought I'd include it
These sound like misconceptions.....not problems

1. Linux mounts everything READONLY by default... this is a saftey measure and is completely normal. Right clicking on the Drive icon on the KDE desktop and choosing "Change Read/Write Mode" will allow you to write to a drive.

2. Sounds like you may have been trying to logon to KDE as root... which is not allowed (and unsafe) .... use the ' su ' command from a terminal window to become root.

Linux can seem overwhelming at first because of all the MS products that we've been stuck infront of for years.....but stick with it.... you wont be sorry

Take Care,
-Justin
One Mynds Eye