Hi everybody! :) Here is the conclusion to my problem story ;)
I finally got my WinXP CD (w/ my luggage) back from the airline... So I could finally try the "fixmbr" utility, but without success. Also, Partition Magic told me that a couple of things were screwed up and prompted me whether to repair them, which I confirmed. Then I could mount the partition from within Linux, and see how "screwed up" things really were... 8-| So I decided to start from scratch... In any case, thank you everybody for your nice help and support, even if my endeavors didn't work as expected, it still was a great way to learn (a hard way, I have to admit!) but I'm learning fast! I had to play a lot with LILO, lilo.conf, fstab, and Knoppix, so it's a good start after all! :) Thanks again and see you around... Mathieu.
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