Ouch, my head now hurts.....thanks all for complicating my life

Really though, getting putty.exe, etc I don't think would work anyway for several reasons. A.) at school I'm running Linux and B.) there's no way the family would let me touch the computer at home (except every time i come home and have to fix something that they messed up) so this thing is gonna continue to boot Windows 2000 til the day they kill it.

I think i'll be happy enough talking to friends on GAIM and reading all the postings on here, so don't feel any need to rack your brains to come up w/ a solution to this non-problem of mine