this thing is killing me.... LOL! i read through a bunch of threads about this, and was tempted to just kinda follow the instructions essexboy has given several others, (run aswMBR, OTH, OTL, and ComboFix, -- basically i was about to do everything he said to someone else except the part about posting any logs,) but figured maybe i should do this the right way. i am ready to follow instructions! save me, jeebus!!