Thanks for the encouragement. One of the advantages of experience is having a few buddies in the biz. One of them offered the use of a linux system and so I have moved everything over there. I learned about "apt" which I wish I had known about a few days ago. He has helped me make some great progress.

This is a great resource, too, and I will definetly check in from time to time. It's really quite amazing, I think, that open source works so well.