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I didn't do that...
So, I am looking over this page, and will chroot into my build partition and fool around with this.
update-fonts-dir howto
Thanks for the tip!

From what I can tell, when I chrooted into my Build partition, and did apt-get install big-cursor, everything was taken care of by Debian. The fonts.dir file has this at the top:

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576 6x12.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--12-110-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1 big-cursor.pcf.gz cursor 6x13.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1

The original cursor file, now left out of the fonts.dir file was renamed to:

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cursor.pcf.gz-small

I had noted that when the apt-get ran, and installed "big-cursor".
Now for the sticky part:
Only in some areas of the desktop, windows, etc. does "big-cursor" show up.
The default Knoppix cursor is everywhere, mostly in big windows like Firefox, which I run fullscreen. What is strange is that upon bootup of X11, the 'big-cursor' "X" (really big) appears briefly, then the mouse cursor is changed to the default Knoppix one (that I am trying to get rid of).
Now, back to running update-fonts-dir. I tend to think that even if I got the artwiz cursor fonts placed in the directory, and made a new font.dir file, those fonts would just take the place of "big-cursor" , and not appear everywhere, any more than 'big-cursor' does now. I have remastered it with big cursor, so I am running that now, and can see what a mess I have with two groups of cursor fonts.
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There is the open look sun cursor fonts, still in there, with the file name:

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olcursor.pcf.gz

It is possible to change to KDE within my Knoppix remaster, and there I can actually view the contents of these font files, to see what they look like.
In Fluxbox or ICEwm, the system cursor font is supposed to be viewable with:

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xfd -fn cursor

and a box will open with all of the various cursor shapes displayed.
It is obvious that I do have 'big-cursor' installed when I run that.
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So, I still have not discovered where Knoppix hides the little cursor that they have in Knoppix 3.4. It's small, white, and has a shadow. If I did find the file where it is stored, and renamed it or something, I might then not be able to get X11 to start up, if a file somewhere tries to call it. I tried using KDE to change it to a larger one, in a KDE control panel, but it won't do that. Stays the same.
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I'll get back in here if I fix this...

This turned out to be a KDE thing. I downloaded and set up my own cursors from kde-look.org, and the /home/.knoppix/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals file needs to be edited to remove the cursor theme, just remove the theme name, so it will be blank.
They have setup instructions on the cursor packages at kde-look.org.
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