Hey again...
Good news! Laptop is up and running after I deleted Amazon's cloud uploader... It came to me randomly the other night, that the only 'new' thing I was doing back when the Laptop started acting up was uploading a few albums to amazon to try on my kindle fire.
Anyway --- I was going thru and deleting stuff I didn't need to clear up space, and came across a problem file.
It's a 9.5gb video file, and the sucker just won't delete. I rebooted, tried again and let it sit for 40 minutes, and still nothing.
Could one of those programs Essexboy had me DL be able to delete the thing?
PS
Thanks again for the help, Essex!