Ok, as far as I know im gonna have to re-install all of my drivers.

Can someone tell me how to do that and anything else I need to know?

Thank you.

Pffffffffffahahahah.

Only thing I needed a driver for was my obscure sound card.

Alrighty then.

DjPZ look for tutorials about drivers!
google your's devices to make sure its not problematic at linux

You probably won't need to mess around with drivers. My Linux Mint 9 recognized the drivers automatically out of the box. Including the dedicated and special Fn keys on my Asus laptop and my HP and Epson printers.
It will ask you to install the graphics card drivers though (the proprietary ones). It'll pop up on the bar saying that "proprietary drivers are available for your software" (ATI or Nvidia drivers, depending on your graphics card brand). Its a one click install, though, since it will automatically suggest you the available driver.
But once you boot through the DVD, you'll be able to see if everything is working okay, prior to installation, since its a Live-CD the system will initially run from the CD and decompressed to the RAM.

Ok well I just wrote the LiveDVD .iso image to a disc, first step is done.

I put in the wrote disc, Linux loads up and the desktop displays. ok awesome.
then it gets slow, so I go ahead and double click the install Linux shortcut.
Nothing happens.

I go to my windows XP desktop, 7Zip the .iso into a folder, and run the program.
It starts installing, gets 3/4 the way done, and stops and displays an error.

what do?

Could be anything. Whats the error?