FGLRX Drivers Messing Up Boot Splash and Desktop Icons

[nullego]

I'm a long time Ubuntu user, but I got board and decided to try something new, so I just installed Fedora today, and I am quite pleased thus far! I only have two main porblems!

Problem #1:
I just got some FGLRX ATI drivers for my laptop installed, but the boot splash is gone, now there is just a bar at the bottom of the screen when the boot process starts. Also the console(s) are all low resolution as well. I had this porblem on Ubuntu as well (it seems FGLRX drivers mess up every distro in existence). I've been to a bazillion posts and guides about this, nothing seems to work. I've even tried guides for other distros to no avail. Seems it has something to do with either grub.conf or xorg.conf, but no matter which thing I try nothing works. I even installed the spinfire themes (which do not work even when turned on, the progress bar is always shown).

Problem #2:
I was trying to get rid of the default desktop icons (Computer, Home Folder, and Trash). So I started up gconf-editor and went to apps/nautilus/desktop and unchecked the three icons above but there is no effect. Another strange thing is that in apps/nautilus/preferences it says default folder view is icon, but I have it set to list on my account. Do I have to run something to update the current user accounts? I'm just not sure what to do!

Any help is much appreciated! Below is my grub.conf and xorg.conf for reference!

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_locus-lv_root
#          initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.35.14-106.fc14.x86_64)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.14-106.fc14.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_locus-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_locus/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_locus/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
	initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.14-106.fc14.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_locus-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_locus/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_locus/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
	initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64.img

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
	Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "0-LVDS"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
	Option	    "PreferredMode" "1280x800"
	Option	    "TargetRefresh" "60"
	Option	    "Position" "0 0"
	Option	    "Rotate" "normal"
	Option	    "Disable" "false"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	Option	    "Monitor-LVDS" "0-LVDS"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
	Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection