The good news is that I'll have a PC that's functional VERY soon. Not only that, but it looks like it will be a better PC, with 3GHz processor instead of 2GHz, and 2GB of RAM instead of 1

The bad news is that it will set me back at least $500

The really bad news is that it seems that my HD is lost (I'll take it to an expert, but all my efforts to get it to work have so far failed). That would mean that my track has been wiped out.

Jasper or Orwell - if you still have a beta of my track - PLEASE hang on to it. At least it'll help me reconstruct it if the worst is true and I'll never get my data back.
Phew?
