Hi all, after some work and reading posts on this list, I have managed to 
complile Lyx from source with the qt frontend. Wow, it is indeed nice, cheers 
to the developers.
 Here is a summary of what worked on this end, for those who may have similar 
problems.
My setup: Mandrake 9.0, gcc3.2, qt 3.1
  (The rpm at the ftp site did not want to work here.)
cd to where Lyx is
export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3
./configure --with-frontend=qt  (learned this from a previous post)
then the usual make and make install
  Works like a charm.

One question, I have installed the preview-latex files and checked the box for 
instant preview in Lyx.  I do not see anything happening. Is there some 
additional configuring of preview-latex I need to do??
PS I come from the windows world; have been with Linux for 4 months; learning 
curve is steep but a great process. Goodbye windows.
best regards, b....
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