[ale] FC13 question

[drifter at oppositelock.org (Drifter)]

There are times when I need to to things as root that are -- for me -- 
much easier to do using the GUI aps rather than the command line.
Years ago on a Red Hat install, root actually had a directory in /home and 
I could log into the system as root and have the GUI.

This FC13 install doesn't provide that feature. I can create, as root, a 
directory in /home. That's easy enough.  But what do I have to do so that 
I can log in as root directly just as I log into my regular user account?
If I try to log in as root now, the system just laughs at me.

Clearly I am missing several steps in the process.

Sean