You may want to check out this new thread I just created:

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29702

In the last 9 months I wasted most of my time remastering 5.3.1 to my personal preferences, and that includes 18 extra kernels along with WORKING aufs, cloop and a network driver for my computer, Attansic L1 (module name atl1.ko)