You mean now the real fun starts. Installing aalib for the mplayer is something really cool, see
http://hypography.com/forums/compute...libraries.html
Then you should install and use the xfce desktop (waaaay cooler than gome or kde) and personalize it (style: no menus on the screen, but right click opens a menu, scrolling on desktop allows you to switch desktop, dragging windows from desktop to desktop,etc...)
And now work is calling, back for more cool stuff later.