everything seems to be in order, thanks. there were a couple of strange occurrences that set me off, but i'm not sure anything was ever attempted. Trend's online scanner said it picked up a keylogger, but Spybot S&D, AVG anti-spyware and rootkit, and avast antivirus missed it.
So I have no idea if there was an breakin attempt, but I think there was. IAC, apparently i'm clean now, though i can't be totally sure of that either.
p.