Whelp, I finally got my computer to ‘FUBAR‘ status the other day. I’m not sure exactly what I had done, but some where along the lines I corrupted what had obviously been some important system files, because I was getting errors that I just couldn’t ignore any longer. Maybe it was when I was messing around in my registry, or maybe it was just natural windows decay, but either way I had to move all my shit to my backup drive so I could format and reinstall Windows XP Pro on my main drive. I’ve pretty much got all of the essentials re-installed (Trillian, Guild Wars, iTunes, Firefox, etc) and most of my settings are back the way I want them, so it looks like everything is going well. I do, however, understand why some of my customers throw a fit when they learn that they too will have to do all the reinstallation after we format and restore their computer to the original factory software settings. It can certainly be a pain if you don’t know what you’re doing and weren’t expecting to have to do it. On the plus side, my desktop has never been less cluttered with a record-breaking 4 icons.