Two things...

First. I want XP to be my default OS not linux in LILO. I searched the internet on how to do this. I figure I am driving you people mad by now. I found how. I did what it said. Nothing changed. Here is what I have in lilo.conf:

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
default=NT
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
ignore-table
disk=/dev/hdd bios=0x81
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hdd5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi quiet"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux-nonfb
root=/dev/hdd5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hdd5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi failsafe"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=NT
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe

When I restart my computer. It behaves as if I changed nothing and Linux still loads as default. What do I need to do to change this?

And second...

When the GUI comes up in Linux it is Gnome. I like gnome under Redhat but not mandrake. I want KDE to be the default GUI. I thought I changed this, I guess not. How do I change it?

Thank all of you for your help and I hope I haven't driven you to the mad house quite yet. Give me time. I am just learning.

In time I WILL drive you to the mad house... then again you use Linux, you are ALREADY there!

OK, I got it to work. I didn't know I had to type "lilo" at the command prompt under root after editing and saving lilo.conf. I did it and bada-bing bada-bang, it worked. Cool beans, now about my second question...

You probably didn't re-run lilo after the changes..
As root type:
/sbin/lilo -v

This "updates" lilo in the MBR.

That's it for #1, I will give someone else a shot at #2

Cool

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OH man! Glad to see you found out on your own though, too bad it was shortly before my reply
</edit>

cat > ~/.xinitrc
startkde
<control-d>