There's a new article from TechRepublic entitled 10 things you should do to protect yourself on a public computer.
It might be good to compare what the author says in the article with what people here have been saying.
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too bad that SAM at the public library disabled private information deletion. But it said on the website that it does that automatically :)...
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Number 9, "Boot from another device" is the only truly safe option. I keep a bootable Ubuntu linux USB flash drive in my pocket at all times. Aside from a hardware-keyboard logger, I am completely safe because I carry my environment with me.
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Use an online service like Ulteo, Cosmopod or Desktopondmemand
Even this is not 100% secure.
Your OS can end up running on a VM :D.
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." Asimov
Security is to a greater rather than lesser extent a matter of trust.
You trust something to be secure because someone tells you it is not usually because you know it to be absolute.
I think while the 10 commandments highlighted in this thread are useful a lot of this boils down to common sense, IMHO.