Success!

Sale at Best Buy... I bought a 1GB USB flash drive for $20. On the second attempt, I got Puppy onto it and viola! I booted puppy from a flash drive!! BUT, I had no access to my ntfs formatted hard drive. No problem - I just had to put a file called pup001 onto the root of my C drive. So, looks like I am now able to play with Linux whenever I want, access my files without having to do anything to screw up my Windows installation. Life is looking good. :-)