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Andy,
If you decide to follow Joe's advice and rebuild your hard drive, allow me to suggest something a bit further.
Once you have your OS and any additional applications installed, configure everything as you like it and then make an image of it.
Norton Ghost is perfect for this. Basically, it makes a copy of everything which you can back up to an external drive, or even span it across DVD-R disc(s), if you need that much room (A DVD-R will hold up to 4.5 GB.
This way, if and whenever you feel the need to rebuild your drive again, you simply lay the image on it, over whatever you have and you are back up and running in a hour or so, rather than the multiple hours it takes to install everything individually.
I know of some people who do this as their routine backup. They have the original image, and once a week, or once a month they image their current setup.
Just my own $.02.
Randy
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