I downloaded STD Knoppix and gave it a try today.The fluxbox interface was different than what I am used to, but It was the perfect choice in regards to the purpose.I won't use it too often, but it will become more useful as I develop my abilities.I am certainly pleased that I found it.

In the mean time,I've found a distro of knoppix called slax.It is essentially slackware live on cd.I is the most pleasant distro I have discovered to date,and I am now looking into slackware.Just for the record I have redhat 8.0 and Mandriva installed on my hard drive at the moment,and I now own knoppix,slax and STD knoppix.My main production machine is,however, a mac os 10.4.2 powerbook.

If you haven't tried slax yet,please do, it is efficient,user friendly and highly customizable:

http://slax.linux-live.org/download.php

Thanks to everyone who took the time to answer my questions,You've all been very helpful.