Might be one of... 1. Not meeting system requirements (sure it says 1Gb, but on a 2Gb machine... I donno *shrug*) or 2. That toshibas graphicscard or lack of (not enough mem on it? Driver issues? Bit of both. Post the output of "inxi -Fz" with a question usually helps too 
Well now thats a nifty little command. As for the Steam thing I am not attempting to run any games from it just be able to be signed in a speak with people who I only can contact through it. I know this thing will not allow gaming (me desktop will do that one)
anyway here is the output of that command and its actually interesting.
System: Host: Fistandantilus Kernel: 3.13-1-686-pae i686 (32 bit) Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.5 Distro: VSIDO 3 savant-hakerdafo
Machine: System: TOSHIBA product: Satellite A75 version: PSA70U-004004
Mobo: TOSHIBA model: EDW10 version: Null Bios: TOSHIBA version: V1.60 date: 11/06/2008
CPU: Single core Mobile Intel Pentium 4 CPU (-HT-) cache: 1024 KB flags: (pae sse sse2 sse3)
Clock Speeds: 1: 1867.00 MHz 2: 1867.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RS300M [Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP]
X.Org: 1.15.0 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1280x800@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI R200 (RS300 5835) x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL DRI2 GLX Version: 1.3 Mesa 10.1.0
Audio: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] IXP150 AC'97 Audio Controller driver: snd_atiixp
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.13-1-686-pae
Network: Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] IXP200 3COM 3C920B Ethernet Controller
IF: N/A state: N/A speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Card-2: Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver: 8139too
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Card-3: Qualcomm Atheros AR5212/AR5213 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath5k
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 60.0GB (4.4% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: IC25N060ATMR04 size: 60.0GB
Partition: ID: / size: 53G used: 2.5G (5%) fs: ext2 ID: swap-1 size: 2.68GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors: None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info: Processes: 100 Uptime: 4 min Memory: 205.9/1388.7MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 1.9.14
Yes my computer is named after a character from Dragonlance lol.
But on another note what I find interesting is the ram, right before I put this (Vsido) on here I checked the ram through XP and it stated that there was 1.4Gb installed. Opened the case and there is only one single ram slot and 1 stick obviously. So I had thought that there was maybe something funky going on with XP and it was a 2Gb stick (I did check the stick but its not stated on it what it is and honestly didn't look it up.
As for asking a question...
What would cause steam to appear that way? Even though this thing can't do any gaming it should be able to handle loading the UI properly.