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Way to go Niel!
Reading about all your trials with different Linux distributions I wonder why you haven't checked out VMWare yet? I am using it at work and it is really cool, having all kinds of OS setups contained within a single machine. They even run in parallel! Yes, you can have VMWare running on your WinXP and SUSE 9.3 and Ubuntu at the same time, yielding 3 logical machines within the local network. Installing a Linux VMWare installation doesn't take longer than the usual route. Only drawback are the rather large memory and processing requirements. But that shouldn't be a big deal with hardware costs these days. Regarding 3D performance I am not really sure how this will work but I'd at least give it a try.