*ahem*

um, not sure what's up, got my laptop back from b-i-l yesterday, he declared the battery the problem. said I could leave the battery out, plug this turkey in and everything should be fine. but it wasn't. so I've been playing around with it today. RTO had said something about taking out the wireless card and it speeding up the other night. so I took it out and yes, the processor finally rested. soooooo I've put the old linksys wireless b card in and the processor is still cooperating. w007! I don't remember the problems starting when I changed wireless cards, but it's working now so I'll run with it. will be posting some pictures later.