Do not pay Microsoft developer technical support nearly $300 to have some guy named Babu (no, I'm not making that up) diddle with your registry over a Netmeeting session. You'll be sorry.

On the other hand, I got to try out this new Dell Datasafe feature I wrote about earlier. It worked like a champ.

You open up Ghost, pick a recovery point, click OK, it says it needs to reboot into recovery mode, say OK again, and it's all automagic after that. Come back about an hour later and you are at the login prompt with your system in whatever state it was in when that recovery point was generated (one generated automatically at 3:00 that morning, in my case).