In the meantime, I found out these links are called symlinks, and they can be created by the ln command.
But I didn't find a way to examine (or edit) them, i.e., to find out what the target is?

to find the target of the symlink (from a term) "ls -l" in the dir with the symlink or "ls -l [symlink]"

Oops, I've posted into the wrong thread. - Thanks, though!

I did get the Nvidia driver to work, then I nuked the system by screwing up unmounting my Fat32 partition from /media/ and trying to mount it /home/, somewhere along the way it died and I had to reinstall Kubuntu. This time I just used easyUbuntu and it was perfect. Now I've done pretty much everything, I was considering recompiling the Kernel before I get to adjusted to the system in case I screw up I don't care much about reinstalling the OS everytime I screw something up seriously.

Also - security flaw I think - when I boot into Ubuntu (recovery mode) - a default option on my Grub setup, it loads as root without asking for a pssword. I.E. anyone who physically sits down at my computer can access root without questions. I did see an option in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file that is for a password, but I don't want the password to be on all the boot options, just that one.

Just set the root password and it will ask for it in recovery mode (which is just single user mode "init 1")
"sudo passwd root"

1. You really don't need to reinstall when you make a simple mistake - just post your problem here, and we can probably help you to fix it. It is very unlikely that simply unmounting /home would nuke the whole system. 9 times out of 10, you don't need to reinstall - that is the MS way of fixing problems.

2. One useful thing about no password for recovery mode is that if you forget your password it is easy to recover. If you can provide enough physical security for your machine, it is not a major problem.

--Ian