Thanks for the offers of help. I noodled for hours, figured out that
it was a codec problem (I had downloaded Divx). The solution was to
make the whole thing go back to 'delivered state", which wasn't as big
of a drag as it could have been, since the damn thing is only a couple
of days old.
It's kind of funny, this has to be a new record for me in terms of
making a computer unworkable.
Once I watched a new guy at work who just got issued his laptop keep
scrolling and hitting the "delete" key. I asked him what he was up
to, and looked over his shoulder. He was in the Windows directory,
getting rid of all the "junk" that bothered him. I said, "Are you
going to keep deleting until it doesn't boot?"
He dismissed my comment, but two days later he changed his computer
out for a different one because of a "hard drive problem".
Thanks again for being willing to help out. It works now.
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