Well, I am glad My bro got back before the coup occurred.
Seriously, what happened is that while surfing the civ sites, a worm called intell32.exe crawled into my system and corrupted explorer.exe. So the next time I fired up Sir Crash-A-Lot, it would not load. I tried safe mode, step by step, and safe mode step by step. Nothing worked. I had to start in dos mode and delete the entire windows directory then reload my OS. Needless to say, all the DLL's required by the installed software went along with the directory. So I am in the middle of reloading ALL my software again.
I was seriously giving thought to abandoning the net in toto, but then I considered all you loyal followers of Gunny, and realised that I have a duty and responsibility to you all and decided to limit my net roaming to here. I am posting this on my bro's laptop and when I get the comcast tech over here to reload the NIC card drivers I will post the second part of the Trap. It is already written.
Cheers Thorgrimm