Done and dusted!

[vilakins]

That's a British expression meaning a task has been completed properly, and in this case it's literal. I now have a new hard drive (well, new to me--it's Greg's old one which he replaced with a much bigger drive a while back) and while we were putting it, we took the opportunity of cleaning the dust off the fans and other components. It only took about 30 minutes to restore from backup, so I'm baaaack, and with a drive that doesn't thrash around due to bad sectors. :-D [pats drive] I shall defrag you frequently.

I'm lucky to have a resident computer tech, and a much better-tempered one than Avon.