I'd agree with Sector11 on this one. Take some time... Linux, computers, all that will be around for a while.
Besides, there will be all those boxes to move. 

Never mind... Thought there might be an easy was to avoid a duplication somewhere.

Restarted! Everything works. 
RAM is at 10% with nothing else going on...
Now that I know it's there, it's great.
For a new user, I think ceni would look pretty intimidating.

Oh, and smxi also offered to install Libre Office. Maybe it can be folded into the post-install script?

Used @tlinsley's method, and it worked with no problems.
Lots of questions asked the network that I wouldn't like to go through each time I encountered a new wifi network, but it's working.
Using sudo apt-get remove to get rid of the gnome code, and restart.

Just read the HOWTO; thanks!

Thanks, Jedi!
I'll try this when I get home tonight.
To be honest with you though, I'd be a lot more concerned if this system I'm running wasn't 64-bit. And older CPU with limited RAM and 32-bit, that's where you're going to see your system resources pinched. Here, I've got resources to burn! Be fun if I can make the same stuff work on my netbook running #! 

The Publisher file I tried got pretty jacked-up formatting-wise. Had the same experience using Draw to modify PDF's in the past. Still, it's early days for the beta, and you're still getting a lot more than the gibberish you used to get. 

Got it installed and running as well.
I'll see if there aren't some MS Publisher documents at work to test compatibility tonight.
Thanks everybody.

Downloading the main and help *.deb files directly.
Android phone asking me what the hell I think I'm doing... 

You'll beat me to it, then...
Not at home, and doing this over the phone. 
Ah, well...

Okay... I'm going to download and try the new Libre Office 4.0.
I don't' exactly know how (or why I need it) but if you're running Debian Sid, you might as well get the benefits of running bleeding-edge.
Any ideas before I go all "mad scientist" in an hour or two?

Hey, I just showed up and installed the ISO...

Thanks for the comman-line tip, *

Toshiba L675D-S7104:
System:    Host: greyvsido Kernel: 3.7-trunk-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Xfce 4.10.0 Distro: VSIDO
Machine:   System: TOSHIBA product: Satellite L675D version: PSK3JU-08W02R serial: ZA289399K
           Mobo: TOSHIBA model: NALAE version: 1.00 serial: 0123456789AB Bios: TOSHIBA version: 1.40 date: 08/26/2010
CPU:       Dual core AMD Turion II P560 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm)
           Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series]
           X.org: 1.12.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) tty size: 143x35 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio:     Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4200 Series] driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.7-trunk-amd64
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller driver: r8169
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: 1c:75:08:71:38:da
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter driver: rtl8192ce
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 88:25:2c:ba:22:1b
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1500.3GB (74.8% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_MK5065GS size: 500.1GB
           2: USB id: /dev/sdb model: HDS721010CLA332 size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID: / size: 399G used: 249G (66%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 1.07GB used: 0.02GB (2%) fs: swap
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 47.6C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 149 Uptime: 20:24 Memory: 586.9/3710.3MB Runlevel: 2 Client: Shell (sudo) inxi: 1.8.35

# Machine dual-boots with Windows Ocho without any problems. EUFI not installed on this machine, so none of the headache...
# Realtek issues addressed here: [url=http://vsido.org/index.php/topic,161.0.html]http://vsido.org/index.php/topic,161.0.html[/url]

Okay, what tool did you use to product this data?

@VastOne;
Dude, this is a freakin' cool distro! Thank you for letting me play in the public park you created! 
I just wish I could have edited //etc/apt/bing/bang/bong.floppythingy.txt with a few lines of code, but... um, no. Maybe someday.