Bite Me

I'm currently engrossed in an ongoing battle royale with the old lady, so there's not much to post.
Also, I'm still battling that F-ing virus, which I haven't had adequate time to attack, due to {see above}
A couple things on that. I just discovered that my Windows XP cd is damaged. There's a scratch on it, and when I try to reload Windows, it tells me something.sys file is damaged and it bails out of the install.
I think the losers that I bought my pc from, loaded their copy of Windows on it when they were troubleshooting it, the first week I had it. My Product ID number has "OEM" instead of three of the middle numbers. This also prevents me from getting tech support.

Even my own mother, whom I called on Mother's Day, told me, "Just treat yourself and buy a new computer". I accused her of siding with my wife over her own son.

UPDATE:
I've been pretty critical of MicroSoft, but I've got to give them credit. When I called for telephone support, they quickly patched me through to "Product Replacement", and they are shipping me a new CD tomorrow.