gave up trying to fix puter and went for jolly family walk instead. Would've been more jolly without 4 year old whinging all the way. Anyways puter is working properly again after restoring it to some time in the last century. Now just gotta solve the 'firewall won't let me have my email' problem.

Things that are fun: teaching a 4 year old belly dancing moves to the strains of Postman Pat.