I have the enlightenment Window manager and just used a friend's config file. many times i will click to the desktop and have XWindows crash. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks.

Also, how do I get my scroll wheel on my mouse working?

try to look at this post

about your mouse, edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and at the "InputDevice" Section add these parameters

how would i go about reading an NTFS drive so I can listen to my mp3s? And how do you extract tar.bz2 files? Thanks

you can recompile your kernel for read support of NTFS, Im not sure if the standard kernel is compiled that way (I use different drives for Slack and WinXP) ..

to extract a *bz2 file use the command

$bunzip filename.tar.bz2

this will bunzip the file to tar format, then you can do a

$tar -xvf filename.tar

or you can use the -j option with tar

$tar -jxvf filename.tar.bz2

umm actually working with your NTFS partition is quiet dangerous and not recommended! But if you still want to do so. Then you should create a directory like /mnt/ntfs in order to mount the partition. Then do a:
mount /dev/your_ntfs_partition /mnt/ntfs
If there's an error and the partition isn't mounted this means that you have ntfs support disabled in your kernel. Still I suggest you create a FAT32 partition for exchanging your files between Windows and Linux and store your movies, mp3s and documents there. Good luck!

P.S. If you screw up windows please don't blame me

This is how i did the ntfs . log in as root and edit the /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
there U'll find a line something like
#/sbin/modprobe ntfs
delete the # and save and exit. then just run the file by typing /etc/rc.d/rc.modules (still as root)
Now you should have ntfs support .. at least i had
then mount as root for example if your ntfs drive is in /dev/hda3
then first type
mkdir /mnt/ntfs to make a dir to mount it in then simply
mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/ntfs
works for me ... oh and you have to be root or else you dont have the rights to look in it
you probably want to make it automount at the boot so just add it to /etc/fstab
I did this on slack 9.0

Read support for NTFS is not considered dangerous. Just don't configure any write support for it, and you should be OK.