Is this after a dist-upgrade or on a newly installed system? Does the System Tools thing still exist in Hardy? (What's it for?) Can you find the menu file for it and see if it still contains valid information? (Just a vague hunch, for a system upgraded for a previous version.)

yea, scratch that last statement. I'm still adjusting to linux. I made the biggiest windows user type error ever. in the main menu setup, i was checking options like system tools without haveing any options within the menu checked which is why it wouldn't show up. now i feel like an idiot.

i just updated my laptop from gusty to hardy since i use hardy on my desktop, and I hate it on my laptop. it literally took about five minutes to close all the crash windows and i lost all customizations. i have horrible hardware on the laptop so... if i stay with gusty on the laptop, can I just upgrade the things like GNOME, file manager, and other things updated in hardy or would i have to install hardy and uninstall the programs that crash and install the older version, like firefox??

or should i just install Debian Lenny and just work on my skills through a less-beginner friendly linux???

if it helps...

i am running hardy on a dell d600 w/1gb ram, pentium 1.6 m. i backed up my stuff and did a fresh install. after the install, it has been running clean..... the install came w/firefox 3.0... which i my humble opinion is Great!

its a IBM T40. and the Radeon Mobility m7 7500 just crashed all. i no that i can unblacklist it (and ill try that once Im dont writing this), but things like firefox 3.0 made me made because all addons and plugins arent compatable. so i lose my OSX costomizations. oh well. I want more expirience. I might dual boot and try it. but any word on this as in Lenny vs Hardy would be nice.

Don't like any of them...Ubuntu is a bug.