I did solve all the issues with viewing stuff, and playing java-based games, on the web.

It was a donated computer that's been heavily tampered with in its history here on earth; so, the issues I described with the floppy drive may simply be the computer, and not the Debian system (I suspect, though, that Linux systems just aren't as good at reading fat32 floppies as are Windows systems). Anyway, I solved this by installing MToolsFM, which sort of allows work to be done on floppies without needing to mount them (floppies are a horrible medium to work with anyway.)

The sound issues are still irritating me, though. Perhaps another operating system would have been better, but I'm not going to reset it up now, that's for sure. I think that a newer kernel image (2.6.8), and installed modules from alsa-source, might do the trick. Granted, I'm just blindly shooting in the dark here. My Debian system at home has sound that works perfectly on everything; so, I know it can be done.

lokathor, have u tried disabling on board snd card in Bios and using pci card only? Ot take out pci card and enable nforce card in Bios? Then try alsaconf.
U may want to check irqs needed vs wc are available for each card. Kde infocenter can help with irqs. Some cards want to use irq 10 (and dont share well) wc is also used by usb and eth0 card;others want 7 wc is used by parallel port printer for example. Good luck.