Well, SOMETHING worked, and all I did was hold F8 and meremly LOOK AT most of the options available. I changed one thing: I set it to show me more while it booted, and this time Windows started normally, although of course it had forgotten most of its customizations so at first I didn't think it had... I had saved my color scheme, and reset to it manually, but this box is a very strange color it didn't used to be. If that's the worse of this, fine. Thanks, all!