John, looking into which problem: KDE or lack of USB drives (or other). If 5624 was built to be compatible with Ubuntu 8.04, why are we having so many problems, and when can we expect fixes? I need to be doing development on Ubuntu and where I'm at now I need to either move to VMWare, or buy another PC to use for my dev work. Neither of which are appealing to me, but if I can't write boot images to USB drives from Ubuntu, then I'm completely stuck. Please help 