I'm sorry I didn't follow this thread and missed your follow up question. Glad you got the machine running. Now you back up your files. Not one backup, not two, but at least three copies of every file you can't find anywhere else. Put one copy on an external drive (thumb drive or Hdd in an enclosure) the second on a DVD, and the third in the cloud (dropbox etc...). Just make it a habit to backup on a regular basis.
PM me a mailing address and I will mail you a live CDs of both Puppy and Ubuntu.
