hm, this may sound increadibly stupid, but Im not sure if I would be able to do that dual partitioning thing. I know that right now Windows XP takes up about all of my space on my home PC. Would I just have to reformat and set aside some extra space for Linux?

If nothing else I may just end up buying a new PC with Vista and using that as my main one, then keeping my current one and running Linux on that.

I dont know, thanks for all the links though. Im going to check them all out.