My computer always manages to get fucked up in the oddest ways.

First, it stopped playing cds. (It will install from them, but it won't actually play from them.) Now it won't install anything *not* from a cd.

Hence I currently have no IM. (Because I uninstalled Trillian to try to fix something, and now I can't install it again.)

I so need to reinstall the OS. Pity I have no OS cd.

update: got IM back, by downloading a new zip file instead of an installer. I've discovered much more about the various mysteriously named processes running on here. but I still can't play Diablo II.