I have noticed a lot of people seem to have numerous problems with the ATi/AMD Catalyst drivers. The errors can be caused by a myriad of issues. Sometimes it's as simple as a file being missing and other times it's a registry key.

If you already have CCC installed I am guessing you already have installed the latest version of the .NET framework.

Programs you will need to download & install:
Driver Cleaner Pro
CCleaner
SuperShell
(optional) Latest ATI/AMD CCC Drivers

1. Remove the drivers using the ATI Software Uninstall Utility.
2. It will ask you to restart the system, restart but go into safemode.
3. Login to a administrator account.
4. Start Driver Cleaner Pro and select " Select multiple cleaning filters"
Add these to the list: "ATI , ATI CCC , ATI Uninstall Utility , ATI WDM"
Click Start to clean.
5. Run CCleaner & do a registry check (to check for registry links to removed files).
Select Fix All to fix the errors.
6. Now you will need to run supershel.exe
Once in the shell, run regedit
Now go to HKLM/Software/
Remove ATI & ATI Technologies
Now everything should be clean.
7. Reboot into windows as you usually would and install the required ATI/AMD CCC drivers.

I decided to buy a new harddrive for different reasons (the main one being dual/triple booting different OS's).

I looked around and decided the samsung spinpoint drives looked pretty good. I never really saw my Seagate 7200.10 320Gb as being slow and had it setup so each OS had 100Gb. Obviously as time has gone on the partitions have started to fill up.

On first powering on the Samsung I noticed straight away the drive was very quiet. On copying data it seemed quicker and even general usage seemed quicker.
To be sure, I decided to benchmark it against my Seagate and I was amazed to see the difference between the two drives.

The Samsung seems to be running 10°C cooler than the Seagate and is a lot quieter.
The Samsung also shows a huge improvement over the Seagate in the benchmarks, running over 100MB/s faster than the Seagate.

I benchmarked both drives on the same system and the same windows install/boot (installed on the Samsung). Both drives are running on the Intel(R) 82801GR/GH SATA AHCI Controller (ICH7).

Finally razer have released the deathadder mac drivers and they are excellent.
The gui looks exactly the same as the windows drivers which should be a help for people who are used to razer's stylish, slick interfaces.

One thing which seems to be annoying with OS X is the way the mouse always seems to have acceleration. I had to enable acceleration on 1 in the drivers to get good movement back in the mouse.
Before these drivers I had tried steermouse and other applications, but none really made the mouse respond in the right way.

The movement on OS X is greatly enhanced with the changing of the dpi and frequency. 1800dpi @ 1000hz is a vast improvement.

Previous to this mouse I was using the Razer Diamondback with the Razer Pro|Click drivers (as they seem to be the same mouse, even down to having the same hardware ID's).

After giving up and generally being annoyed with gentoo, it was time to look for another distro.

I was told archlinux was one of the best upcoming ones. The more I read about it, the more I liked it. It sounded very similar to slackware (a distro I used to use as my main OS from 2000 to 2002 - before gentoo).

The install was very easy, I'd say it was basically the same as slackware was all those years ago. No pointless graphical rubbish, and it installed a nice base system to build everything else onto.
Installing & configuring xorg was very simple due to the package manager (pacman) & the fact the packages are in a compressed .tar.gz archive (like slackware). I installed openbox to get a higher resolution (640x480 looks horrid on a 1080i 24" screen) & continue the installation of gtk, gnome, xfce, fonts etc.

I am really pleased so far with archlinux. It boots 2xfaster than gentoo and the performance is a lot better than ubuntu. So far it seems like it's got the speed of gentoo and the ease of ubuntu. Everything is working as it should and there are no hours of compiling needed when installing stuff.

Here's my openbox desktop so far.

The memory usage is very low and the desktop is nice and responsive.