Problems finally solved!
Whew - after a few days with no computer, it is finally good to be back in business.
Since I was last on, with the several times a day errors, I went and bought a new hard drive. Ended up taking it in to a shop (not a big box) and they put in the new hard drive, replaced the ribbons, replaced the CMOS battery (it was a goner), and they had to put in a new CPU fan, as my husband broke the housing on the existing one when he took it out to clean it (his hands are just too big for all those tiny little parts) - then put all the info and the operating system onto the new drive before the old one gave out - and now I am back in business and hopefully all the bad news and error messages are a thing of the past.
I did want to come back and thank you all again for all the help you gave, all the good advice, and for your patience with my inexperience working with hardware stuff. I truly appreciate it, and am grateful from the bottom of my heart!
Trish
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