>Oh, and X seems to be set up fine, but it can't seem to locate  some library
>which is in /usr/X11R6/lib.... do I need to set some environment variable?
>
Peter,
    You might want to try this before executing startx:
    # ldconfig -m /usr/X11R6/lib

That will "m"erge the libraries there so they will be found...

Paul