Sturgeon's Law

I mentioned my Internet connection and computer issues a couple posts ago, and I didn't get the problems resolved until yesterday. My Internet connection was nearly dead while the connection for the computer upstairs (which should be the exact same connection) was fine, so I assumed (possibly incorrectly) that something on my computer was the problem. I'd also found my antivirus software (McAfee) to be very slow and to integrate poorly with other programs, so I uninstalled that and then did a couple system restores trying to fix things. Bad move. I got myself to a point where the computer thought I still had McAfee installed even though it wasn't, and lots of programs (nothing critical, but stuff that was of potential use to me) would just pop up a blank dialog box instead of actually running. I ended up having to do the easy Windows reinstall (not formatting and starting completely over) to fix everything, and even that made me sweat because it said some files were missing from the CD. Personally, I'm limping almost as much as my computer was. Today at basketball I jammed another finger, rebruised my hip, and opened another toe blister. It was still a lot of fun...