After scanning and importing all of the ireland pics, and getting three quarters of the way through prepping them, the bloody computer decides that it no longer wants to recognize the primary hard drive and won't boot.

Insert profanity here.

Insert worshipful praise for the guys at CompUSA here, as they got it back up and running in only a few hours, and it's now back home and happy.

The 1.5 gigs worth of pictures have been moved over to the secondary (and larger) HD, just in case. 'Cause I'm paranoid.