So it's the new year and my computer lives! After a fight in which the computer could not recieve internet I gained a copy of windows 7 and fixed it. No sooner than I did that, the hardrive died. Best Buy could not fix it under the warrenty, so they sent it out to California where it took another two weeks to fix the problem. Finally, just before Christmas I recieved my newly fixed laptop back and the problems are gone. So just for this occasion either today or tomorrow I will post the next bit of the story. Thank you all for being so patient!