Moron Patrol: You have got to see this (from Windows XP's setup documentation) [First pointed out to me by my brother]:

2.1 If You're Installing a New Copy (Clean Install)

If your computer has a blank hard disk (...)

   1. Start your computer by running your current operating system,
      and then insert the Windows XP Professional CD into your
      CD-ROM drive.

So you're telling me there's an invisible operating system sitting there on my blank hard disk??? Wow! Zero footprint, too!

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Wow... here I am, up and running after a day deleting, formatting, re-partitioning, looking for the right boot-up diskette (my XP cd wouldn't boot), starting, re-starting, pushing, shoving... but finally I'm back online again.

And Radio, oh Radio, all I had to do was copy my Radio Userland folder back into Program Files and here it is... didn't lose a comma.

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