Would like to boot into KDE desktop by default

Installed MDV 2005 community dwnload, everything smooth, during install chose KDE desktop and KDM login mgr. Upon reboot at end of install, was booted into GI.

This morning, am greeted by CL. Type in username, PW, then startx and KDE desktop appears. When shutting down am only given option of logout , returned to CL and there is an error message:

'failed to load module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a" (once only module)

Never had this happen with MDK 10.0

I have tried various settings in MCC for login mgr, but no luck.

1. Would like my old autologin and shutdown menu back.

2. Also, why was Koffice, tuxracer, and Dansguardian, (is squidguard comparable?) not on the CDs,

3. Am learning how to install software with rpms, but I notice different versions #s of an app. How do I determine (from the numbering?) if an app is for a certain release version of a distro. For example, tried to load Krusader (file mgr) but there was a dependency required that did not exist ( googled all over). Then found Krusader with a different build number and it loaded fine, but even if I remembered what the numbers were, I would never have understood what I was looking at.

Any help?
Thanks

ummmm .... autologin is controlled by MCC and shutdown button by the Desktop Manager (kdm for example) ... I don't know more then that.

I would probably try to reinstall.

I'm pretty sure tuxracer and koffice are on the 3 CD set. At least tuxraces was installed automaticaly. Are you sure you checked to install them? I don't know about dansguardian..

Anyway you can install it with urpmi (google for "easy urpmi" if you don't know what urpmi is and how to configure it) or even put the CD, go to the /mnt/cdrom/media/main directory (with the mandrake cd mounted of course) and then install the packages with "rpm -Uvh <package name>"

You should google for "Easy urpmi". Choose your distribution and the mirrors and then follow the instructions there.

This will configure urpmi to download packages specificaly built to your distro, so urpmi will solve almost all dependency problems downloading packages from the internet.

The build number just indicates if the program is newer or older ... not very important. Anything installed with urpmi should work on your computer regardless of the build number.