A few things before I make any changes to my system, I wanted to document the problems I'd had at my last reinstall, and what I'd done to correct them. I got about halfway through the list, but I figured I might share it if not with anyone (because, come on, who is actually going to read this?) at least online for my own reference.

I had been using BasKet to keep track of them, as it really is a handy little app for quick note taking, quick reference links, etc. So here goes:

• Set up a 'Not heard in 30 days playlist in amaroK'

This was relatively easy, in retrospect, and now that I know how to do it, I've been playing around with variations on it -- though they have been less successful. Here's the howto I worked from originally.

• Mouse forward/back buttons in web browsers, etc.

This gave me a whole bunch of problems, even though its a relatively minor annoyance, I have this fancy mouse, and I like using it. I found many walkthroughs and howtos, but this is the one that I finally got it to work with.

• Googlebar in firefox

Okay. Seriously. I love the google toolbar. But it doesn't love how ubuntu reports itself to the browser. It wants it to just say 'linux', instead of the more specific information that it gets. I found the workaround here.

I had some other things I wanted to get working, for example, I had a problem with kwallet's password management for kopete. I got it working eventually, but I'm afraid I don't recall exactly how. It came from a lot of flailing at its GUI, and I finally got everything updated. I have a feeling that it all stemmed from me buggering it up with incorrect passwords from the start, though. So I suppose I can avoid that in the future by not being retarded.

I do continue to have problems with konqueror's handling of audio CD's, but I've just not used that particular point of functionality. I wasn't able to get my various USB peripherals to automount to specific locations (other than usbdisk-n), and I wasn't able to (nor did I try very hard, after my first couple attempts) to get movies converted to a format which would work on my fancy ipod and/or getting them onto said ipod.. nor does digikam recognize the Casio Exilim camera I got for christmas..

And the last thing on my list is 'desktop icons'. I only vaguely recall what this refers to, and it was last on the list for a reason. It will stay last.