For those of you who helped me earlier on and for future reference I’ve found that blender can be found on the path and run sufficiently from the user/local/bin directory in Mandrake 9, when i run from the /home location I get accessability problems blender publisher, apparently this was not the case in earlier versions of mandrake. whoo hoo! I even got windows to run with a dual boot, whoo hoo ha ha he he ho ho, oh happy day!