i got home a few minutes ago and remembered i needed to find out what classes to regester for on wednesday morning. and my computer was all fuggered up. wouldn't boot into windows, safemode, couldn't boot to any diagnostic cd's. hell i couldn't even run a repair of windows from meh xp cd. i was startin to get real worried. i noticed that neither of my hard drives were recognized at all. so i went and got a coke and sat for a minute trying to figure stuff out. then i decided to take everything apart and put it back together and voila it works now....i didn't do anything except for unconnect and reconnect the hard drives and now it works fine. no errors on the disks or anything. it was the damndest thing i have ever seen.