[djdafreund]

Ok, just downloaded the img file again to further test. And noticed the extraced image from the 7z file was 518MB, but the other one was only 384MB. So that looks like that was a problem. I searched and found they do have a Winimage version for x64, which i got, but tried with that and still had issues. That's when i re-downloaded.
Now, normally I would've thought to try that 1st, but didn't only since I never got any error's when I extracted the image file (which is the 1st time it's ever successfully extracted an image from a corrupted/uncompleted 7z file), and the same number of files were there even when comparing to the redownloaded 7z image file, so i'm sorry guys. It was my fault on this one. Now i'm trying again.
Thanks for the tip BTW about the 'Just copy over the xorg.conf file made from a normal Ubuntu install onto the USB stick', i may be doing this myself since i have a Geforce 9600 card which only 1 new version nvidia driver works currently, Which only recently got released for Ubuntu.


Update- Yep, it works just fine. 46 seconds from power on too (from USB stick on top of that!!!) Thanks. Well, other then no audio output from my creative X-Fi FPS soundcard, but that's because i have my onboard audio enabled and using also since i use that in windows for Skype with my headset, and my X-Fi card for everything else (games/videos/music), so i think i just have to grab the card info from my normal Ubuntu install so i can change it somehow.
I tried a DVD, plays fine too. Only thing i noticed so far is you can't shut down, shutdown exits XBMC, then shows the nVidia BETA driver screen for a couple seconds again, then runs XBMC again. Not that it's a big deal, power off switch always works, but i prefer not to do that so i don't screw up my data. But how do i properly exit/shutdown with this? And how would i install x desktop (i think that's the default GUI used with Ubuntu 7.10/8.04), so i can update XBMC without having to reboot back into xp just to build a newer svn, or even xbmc update through Ubuntu libraries normally (forgot the name right now.) since i now have 3.2gigs of free space on my 4gig USB stick using this instead of normal Ubuntu install (Hell ya for all that saved drive space). Other normal method Ubuntu install USED about 2.3-2.6gigs out of the 4gigs!!!) BIG DIFFERENCE, thanks again for that. Thats some music and some videos i can use all that space for now on the USB stick itself TO-GO