Wow, thanks so much Jakec. Tons of input!
Well I've installed OpenSUSE 10.2 and love the interface, it's pretty as ****. But now I se the cool Beryl/Ubuntu 7.04 or whatever thing and it looks even slicker.
But, I like SUSE so far, so I'm going to stick too it for now, especially until I build a newer machine that can even handle Beryl...my oldass Ti4200 128mb card in no way could support Aero for Vista, so I doubt it could handle Beryl as well.
I'm figuring out a lot of stuff. I get stuck often in the SUSE documentation within the OS, seems unhelpful sometimes, but I'm on suseforums.net now and I'm getting great support. Thanks for all of your help guys!