Based on my research, it would appear that I am indeed correct. Fantastic, thank you very much.

So am I correct in assuming that, if I turn off a service using SysV, it will cease to run on boot, but I can still activate it manually using "start-network"?

So, there are a myriad of threads about how to configure wicd to start on boot, but how do you UN-configure this? I've not edited /root/.bash_profile or followed any tutorials, but it seems that the...