I am not goin to read all these posts, no need.
Dont worry. I am hopelessly insane myself. "If it dont work try it again, if it dont work do it again, if it dont work start over, if it dont work... you get the idea"
I bot me a new laptop and decided to try the recovery disk. Well its did not wiping out than recovering. I used it of about 8 times (or so). I downloaded several linux OSes cuz well they didnt like this or that on my machine. I tryed bootleg XP install disks and everything else I could get my hands on. I did not want to send my new computer back. I got to where I was wiping my harddrive and installing an OS of some sort at least once a day. This went on for about 2 weeks or so. Finally (after wiping my HHD and running either the recovery disk or trying to install an OS or installing an OS I would guess over 2 dozen times) I settled in with suse, got my work done so I could live without it for a couple weeks and sent it back.
I aint got it back yet. I REALLY miss her. Im gonn go look at my email to see when she is coming home. Then Ill turn on some country music and pour myself a drink. and maybe try to fall asleep. (Should losing a new computer be this hard?)(Really I am joking here but everything about "I REALLY miss her" is true.)