It took me a whole day, but I finally got Linux and Winxp both installed and behaiving nicely towards each other on my computer. It was a whole day of sweat and tears, mostly tears. Oh, and hair pulling, can't forget about that. You see, I had to install them twice, since Windows took a mighty wallop and refused to recongnize Linux as a legite operating system. Hence I couldn't do dual-boot without try to download fancy software. In my frustration, I tried again. This time, installing Winxp first, and all is well. Yeah, internet works, now I gotta go reinstall everything. The computer thinks my important data and works backup cd is an audio cd with over 300 tracks. So I've lost basically all my work in the past year. Good thing I uploaded some of it here -- my webspace, else I really would've broke down and cried. We now turn back to our regular scheduled programming of hearing me whine about how much my periodic injury-turned-canker hurts: Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, OW this f***king hurts, ow ow ow ow...