Wolcen, I've got her working for now, I think. She's just old, worn out, overworked and needs lots of t.l.c.!

And hopefully new speakers and not a new sound card.

I hope I didn't mess up the sound card while I had the case open. I'm one of those people who shorts out the batteries in every one of my watches, unless the metal is surrounded by plastic...so it's cheap watches for me.
From the news, it may be a while before Andrew can get online. They said that power (500,000 homes), cable and internet were out in NC, with flooding west of the hurricane, and that it may be up to a week before things are back to normal. But I keep checking here, just in case it's better in his area.