I guess it's safe to say my predicament wasn't as bad as yours.

I sent out a white flag...............

OK folks here's the deal. "Parallels does not work" I got this error a few minutes ago.

"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or currupt. <windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe.

Please re-install a copy of the above file.

Add to that the Windows CD is not seen by the computer and i get a few hours to figure the whole thing out.

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