Reinstalling your operating system really isn't a big deal, and that would solve the problem.

Kevin, those are famous last words if ever I've heard them. I just tried a security repair, using the OS disk to repair, not replace XP-Pro, and it killed it.

In hindsight, I would tell you to disconnect every device you've ever attached to the thing before you start doing that, because if it has to fool with drivers for devices that are newer than the OS, it hangs. That's what mine did, and I had to discontinue the work and it never went back to the old position after that.

I installed Win7, and it looks kind of loopy, but it put my old OS in an "old" file name and I found all of my desktop files. I had saved most of the important stuff on a different letter drive, and now the main trick is the train programs to look at the correct letter drives. All of those names changed.

It's not all back, there is a lot of reinstalling to do, but (knock wood) it could have been worse.

SRS