Of course, all things not M$ are assumed to be only of interest to techeads, for whom leaving off the intricacies of the "black screen of agony and death" as it is known to the other 90% of net users - is akin to child molestation.... :-}
It is a trivial thing to create a workable simple small file to do all this and COULD have brought me back to Linux.
Ever since Mandrake 1.1 I've regularly tried to make friends with Linux and every time the smallest change has always involved the BSOAD, where a tiny error in placing a semi colon could trigger the next mid-East war.
I keep hoping that M$ and Rotten Fruit could be put in their place and year after year I await the actual End-User aware evolution to take place.
It hasn't so far.
Still, ever the optimist - I'll go try this new Ubuntu which seems to have one-upped M$ in utility!
Pacem en terra!