equinox: I agree with you on your last point. Though I dismissed it earlier, now that I've sat down and laboured with the issue I've come to realise that Mandrake 10.0 seems incapable of offering me decent 3D performanced through my GeForce FX 5200. I'll stick around till 10.0 Official, but unless I see some performance, I'll might try out the nearest KDE 3.2 equiped distro.
Let's hope it doesn't come to that
Tim