Thanks BluEcho,

The hard disk is what crashed, sectors were dropping like flies and it was making some pretty bad grinding noises before it decided to give me the 'blue screen of death..'  lol -  can't complain though; it worked really well for about three years..

The rest of the machine still works fine though...  the new drive is so quiet it's almost a little spooky compared to the old one...  sometimes I have to lean down to listen to make sure it's still there...   lol

Thanks for your kind words, Stacey and BluEcho, I really appreciate them..  ;-)

~>M