ok, you dont need to create emergentcy disks if you do it right.

this is designed for partition magic 7.0 but im sure the principals are the same:

1) defrag your hard drive to the beginning of your partition.
2) run PM(partition magic) and resize your hdd, making the unallocated how much you want for linux
3) once thats done, you will have your original partition (win ME) and an un allocated space
4) right click the unallocated space and create partition. there will be an option on which file system you want, choose linux. this will automatically create the ext. for that partition (leave about 1.5 - 2 GB (depending on size of drive) unallocated.
5) with the unallocated space, create partition and make a linux swap space.
6) now you should have your original partition (win ME) abliet smaller. and an ext. partition CONTAINING the the linux partition, and the linux swap. once this is done. reboot your computer.
7) once you rebooted, you can restart with the linux cd and boot from there.

When you are installing linux, and it asks you what partitions you want to use and what do you want to delete. tell it to make partitions automatically. it will pick up the one you made and everything will be sweet.

good luck.

and before you uninstall, i suggest you check back with us... thats when you can do some real damage.!!