Well, I gave up on the Debian experiment.  Their package manager is just 
too unweildy to install with and it botched the hell out of my 
installation on an upgrade.  Anyways, I went back to Ol' Faithful 
Slackware and got Linux installed.  However, there seems to be a bug 
with the mouse pointer after KDE starts.  Two vertical lines (some 
aberration) appear below the mouse pointer.  Sometimes, when I mouse 
over a window, the lines disappear.  But, they always come back if I 
mouse over certain window components.  This may be a non-issue, since I 
want to upgrade to KDE 3.  Just asking if anyone has seen this before.