>Yikes! Talk to anybody in the Unix/Linux world and they'll slap you silly.
>You only log in as "root" only if you need to do administrative work -- and even then, you should avoid logging in as "root" --- you "su" or "sudo" only when you absolutely need to do so.

Yes, I hear you. But, I need to do a lot of administrative operations on that PC for a while and this is a real problem.