Hi.
Have you succeeded in your Debian installation yet?
I can tell you it's great fun.
In fact the stability of 'stable' is so effective that I've been running on 'unstable' versions for so long just for the thrill.
So far I've only had three occasions with Sid where I had to muck around with /etc/apt and muck about with installing/uninstalling apps.
Otherwise everything has been running smoothly.
In fact my only problem with the computer now is the hardware is suffering :(