Made the switch to Mandrake 9.2 RC1 from LindowsOS.. Works great... but none of my USB ports work? hehe... I had to plug in a PS/2 mouse. Also.. my sound doesn't work either. Any suggestions?

Send a bug report to mandrake - it's only a release candidate.

If not, try lsmod to see if your usb module is running - if not modprobe it.
Try lspci for your soundcard and see if mandrake can see it, too. What card do you have?

VIA AC97. I do a sndconfig and it tells me my sound card isn't supported.

lsmod doesn't work, but lspci returned this INFO:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP]
00:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:07.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 (rev 01)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 23)
00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 23)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40)