I messed around with it for several hours but I have no idea what I'm doing.

1) Holding down the ControlKey after a restart/boot I get a line that says:
Fedora (2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686)

2) I also clicked on the little computer icon on the desktop and in
Help>About> it says: Nautilus 2.30.1 copyright1999-2009. Not sure whether
the Nautilus thing means anything do to with a version, or if it's entirely
different.

As far as 1) holding down the ControlKey or ESC while it is rebooting the
results are the same. I get the Fedora thing under 1) above and then there
is several options below (which I've had no luck with, but have messed with
them to no avail). They are:

- Use the up and dwn arrow keys to select entry.

- Press enter to boot the selected OS

- "e" to edit the commands before booting. It gives me a bunch of info that
I am clueless to and below that:
root(hd0,0)
kernel /vm linuz ... and on and on

- "a" to modify the kernel arguments before booting. Which gives me:


I also typed in the 2 versions of passwd as previously stated and hit Enter
and nada.

I'm not sure what you are saying about the CD burning. I am totally lost
with all those options on the website the 2nd link, in Roy's, email takes
me to. A huge confusing website that leaves my head spinning.

I appreciate y'all taking the time with this. I'm out of my league no doubt.

I'll mess with it some more. If I trash it, I'll just pitch the thing.