I feel your pain, md. My laptop has been VERY unreliable. I bought it last September. In late October, the hard drive went and I lost everything. Luckily I had most of my pictures backed up. Then about three weeks ago something went wrong with the place where the power cord plugs in, and I had to have it fixed. It was in the shop for a week. Then three days after I got it back, I turned it on one morning to find "FATAL SYSTEM ERROR" on the screen. I took it in again, and the hard drive was gone, again. This time they retrieved my pictures, but I lost all my songs on iTunes... And, my iPod broke the day before I got the laptop back, and when I took it to the Apple store, not only did the service SUCK ASS beyond belief, but they couldn't fix it.. I got a free new iPod, but I lost all my songs. So I have to try and remember them and get them again. Ugh...

__________________