I completed the installation to hard disk last night using the knx-hdinstall script with the help of the HOWTO (http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.html).

Very cool. Everything runs much quicker, of course, and I don't have to save to a floppy. It's been a LONG time since I've played with LILO so thankfully it autoconfigured itself to see both my WindowsXP and Linux partitions.

My one big issue was that after installing to the hard drive KDE was no longer set up to automatically set up my FAT32 partitions. After a bit of searching on the message boards I found this which fixed my problem:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtop...highlight=vfat

I now have a fully functional Linux installation as my main OS and I'm able to share my documents, mp3s, and videos with Windows. I never would've made this jump so quickly had I not had the chance to make sure everything would work using the Knoppix Live CD.

...now I just have to completely relearn how to use my OS