Yoad, perhaps your computers couldn't handle being pink, but mine is happy and thriving in her new pinkness, and I am posting this using my pink Linux box now. Or are you perhaps jealous because you know that I am, in fact, the prettier geek? Should we take a poll or something?
I spent yesterday playing with Kubuntu and reading through the docs, and I finally figured out how to give myself permission to change some things that I needed and was able to install Automatix, as suggested. So I got all the Firefox plugins that I need like flash, and a few other things.
My next goal is to install Hamachi, I have it running on all my Windows machines and I'm devoted to VPN, then to get the sound to work, then to figure out how to fix the mouse problem with my KVM switch.