Thanks guys! Nice to be back!!
Funny you should mention discs, Jack!
My Wife was trying to get our Son(our family computer expert)to come on over and copy our stuff to our discs that we had bought for back-up months(maybe years!)ago, using one of his handy dandy programs.
It's funny too, cuz the Wife was gonna do it herself, but our Son insisted he would do it right away! But.....
.....rats.
He got over ok, just in time for our hard-drive to make one last little gasp and one tiny little screech.
Oops!
So he saved the day, no; the hour, by bringing over a laptop to hold us over while he built us a brand new computer!! Cool, huh?
Where the problem came in was when we realized the new computer case would be a non-fit issue with the old computer cabinet that we needed a new cabinet, and had to dig out all the stuff from the old one and store it for a bit, that the kids discovered the boxes tantalizingly sitting in an unattended corner, looking much like a paper playground.
Phooie.....the rest is history.
It could have been worse; she could have gotten into G'mas cards, she has like five times as many as I do!!(not anywhere like 250 or more, but still a bunch!)
But yeah; I sure need a better data storage system than some of my still-missing 3X5 cards!!
Rich.
He won an axiom speaker package from the home theater spot and then all of a sudden disappeared? 
