Just a heads up. I got into XFdrake. Disabled 3D graphics, chose non-proprietary driver, did a test(saw the lsd colors and a box that asked me if it was correct. Used the mouse and clicked yes) quit and hit exit.
Then I did startx and almost got somewhere. I saw the mouse pointer again, with the busy icon and it just stayed there..with a red background. Did nothing but show the busy icon.
I'm doing google searches to see if I can start er up, without having to re-install.
@YinYeti is there an extension to the "desktop" file. I will be using safe-mode so I guess that's a default path "/etc/sysconfig/desktop"