Oh, Amy, I do sympathise, losing those pics and all the work! When my computer crashed on me a little while ago, I was devastated! I was only without it for 24 hours but I was lost. Thankfully I was able to get it up and running again but I had to re-install everything, windows, the lot, (couldnt re-install my scanner though, Bob had chewed up the install CD long ago!). Days later Id see something wasn`t right, for example the date was US style instead of UK and Id have to figure out how to get that back, little stuff like that. And of I lost a lot of stuff that couldn`t be replaced including pics. I now copy them on to floppy, but sometimes I still don`t do it straight away, I should know better! Anyway, the main thing was/is my computer still works, if it was unmendable..... Life without my computer! I don`t know how to live it!