I had a little "art vacation" there. My new computer started locking up and behaving badly. After a long and stupid round with Dell's overseas help desk and their personal hygiene impaired onsite repair guy I am good again. Evidently removing all my software and reformatting my drive didn't help, it turned out it was my video card that went bad and it's overheating made everything else screw up. ODD, I SAID IT WAS THE VIDEO CARD TO START WITH! Sorry ...I am a little frustrated.

Highlights-

The onsite repair guy asking my daughter how to save a driver to a cd.

The repair guru laughing under his breathe as he flips over the Cd I put in and remarks-"They work better if they aren't upside down" and proceeds to eject it as he discovers he had just put it in upside down.

The foriegn help desk smugly telling me that after the reformat and days of data tranferring I would now understand that it was a software issue and not the video card ...as the computer promptly locked up.

Priceless. The verdict, they gave me a new video card and asked me to buy another computer soon.