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[jonnyD]

I'm definitely game in trying the repair install.  I'm a little disconcerted by the fact that I may need to buy an additional hard drive to back up things like my iTunes library and other music folders, my movie downloads, photos and just my basic documents.  Unless there's another way to back up 150+ gigs worth of stuff besides another hard drive?   

[patio]

Well even external HDD's fail eventually so you should consider something more permanent such as Acronis True Image which is an imaging program...your backup images can then be burned to DVD for safekeeping.