Hey - so, roughly March 1st, something started going on with my computer. I fought for a week before taking it to someone. He had it for two and a half weeks and didn't fix it. He installed a program to band-aid the problem and reinstalled windows instead.

I brought it home, and with help from online, go the virus that had eluded him and fixed it up. Now I'm trying to make a restore disk so I can try restoring my version of windows, with this one to fall back on in case something goes wrong.

That is the very short, very cut down version, leaving out quite a bit of frustration. But yeah - that's a major part of what's been going on.

Hopefully I can get it feeling like my computer again and get back to work soon.