Not staying installed correctly... (kinda long)

Hi folks,

  Got a DVD of 13.37 Friday (Thanks, Rich!!) about noon and proceeded to install it on my 
second hdd until about 11PM that night (minus maybe two hours in between for lunch and 
whatever).

  Here's basically what happens every time I install:

First off, I startx works for about 10 seconds, whether root or user then drops back to 
the console (or whatever it's called). This happens whether I install the whole works or 
do an install where I can pick all the packages I want and don't want.

If I want 'startx' to work (I always install kde to use btw), after I do the first reboot 
after the installation, I install the nvidia .sh that I have in my opensuse hdd (I was 
able to boot back into my opensuse hdd and open a dolphin file manager in root mode and 
copied a slew of stuff over to the /home partition of the Slackware hdd). Once that's 
installed, I can then switch to user and 'startx' and I'm in kde.

Everything works fine, no hiccups, burps, nothing going wrong until I need to go back to 
my opensuse for whatever reason and then as soon as I try to copy something from the 
opensuse hdd to the /home of the Slackware hdd, it can't do it. Dolphin shows a small 
message at the bottom about 'mount: mount point swap does not exist' on the Slackware hdd.

Sooo...I log out of opensuse and boot into Slackware hdd to see what's going on and I get 
a kernel panic. It's this last part that happens, every, single time I log out of 
Slackware and then try to log back in.:

<skip a whole bunch of bootup stuff>
kernel panic - not syncing: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel