Have made two back ups of the OS partition, saved on different drives, and have made new copies of the "Recovery Discs". Each set will be stored in a safe place. Not so safe that I can't find them. That level of 'safe' is something
Aikidomayland does.
Had a nice visit by
Delicious Irony. She will be by again tomorrow, and I will tweak the setting on her netbook to improve performance.
Nerds Rule!