hrmmn....
went i went to reinstall, i noticed i was missing a drive at the bios stage, which came back after i reset the cmos.
you know, it's ok if you don't know what the fuck i'm talking about. you signed up for music updates, not computer troubleshooting. i dunno. maybe you're learning something.
i can't know what caused that, but it's something to take note of. if i really did get attacked by something, that's the last thing i can think of resetting.
i had a bad flash last year that cost me months. i ended up getting a bus pirate to fix it, so it won't be nearly the problem it was then. but, i'm still wanting to avoid that....
let's see what happens on the reinstall.