I hope that I am not being rude here but I thought that I would offer and request something at the same time...
As soon as I was bitten by the Linux bug I quickly became aware of a certain affliction that I am sure that other's have; the incessant need to tinker around within the Linux code and the constant toying with settings that should have been left alone!
After MANY reinstalls I figured there must be a solution for my wandering key's and alas I found one long ago: CloneZilla; http://clonezilla.org/
Please go there and have a look at this as I will now make a suggestion..."is there something that you WAY cool people could adapt into your distro so that fools such as I have a reprieve from our own demise?"