LIFE! Give my creation life!

So, this afternoon was spent working over the frankencomputer.  I have three desktops, donated to me by thirdbase , werewulf  and moiramisu .  Each of them has their own set of peculiarities: tb's is a celery Celeron processor running 98, so there's not much to be done with that, moira's is an e-machine with an occasional rouge restart problem and ww's is fine except for...