The same thing happened to my Chinese fan palm, but mine dessicated within a few weeks of bringing it in the garage from outside. I did leave it out for one night, when it was exposed to a light frost, so I bet that's what did it in. I plan to keep it though, and hopefull it will come back. Mine was 6x6 feet wide and tall and very full, with many palms in the same pot. Good luck with yours, hopefully it will recover.

This is an update to the sp1 info. Susan Bradley in the latest windows secrets newsletter said there are 2 new updates to do to prepare for sp1 if you have not done it yet, this is to help prevent some of those issues that were listed above. from her article Quote: "Microsoft released two patches to fix problems with Windows 7's infamous first service pack. Both should be installed before updating to Win7 SP1. KB 2533552 corrects a flaw that produces a failed SP1 update, leaving users with a cryptic error code (shown in Figure 1) and a difficult recovery. Systems that received SP1 through Windows Software Update Services were hit particularly hard, as noted in a TechNet blog. KB 2534366 fixes an issue with multiple language packs; some systems would hang at a black screen after SP1 was installed. If you haven't already successfully installed Windows 7 SP1, install both KB 2534366 and KB 2533552 first. And if Win7 SP1 is already installed, accept KB 2533552 for future service packs. Yes, it's true; I'm finally ready to give the all-clear for Windows 7 SP1 but only after you've accepted KB 2533552 and KB 2534366, as noted above. Rather than using Windows Update, I urge you to download and install the SP1 update manually to make sure it's successfully added." and the latest list of her recommendations for windows patches list Regularly updated problem-patch chart and the link to sp1 direct download SP1 she mentions to allocate about an hour for this.

fwiw I've run startup repair on win7 a few times. It needs to be run back to back without trying to boot into windows, or it looses count and runs the same first run repair process each time. With my laptop, when startup repair finishes and restarts the computer, then I have to push my boot from cd key quickly again or its lost that ability to count. It would tell you in the reports run once, 2x or 3x. First run is I dont remb, 30 or 40 minutes for win7. Second run is maybe just 2 minutes. Third run would be the same quick, or slighly quicker than 2nd run. And it aways says something about 'startup repair can not repair this computer automatically' I assume it says this because nothing was wrong. I just wanted my partition tables/names microsoft style after using a 3rd party tool to resize partitions.

Hi, Bemore. I haven't been around much and don't remember your style. Since you really don't like the 2 possibilities, though, how about not doing either and ending up living with them for way too long? I don't know if it'd fit your kitchen, but for a custom inexpensive version I'm imagining doorless boxes on the bottom (whatever wood/color suits) with shelves, covered with curtains on pull rings, changed out with the seasons if you like and replaceable nice doors someday if desired. On the wall, simple custom shelves or open shelf units, pale-to-white finish to help MW blend in, for less than $500, including fine-grained wood and carpentry. Counters could also be wood, as they were often in pantries long ago. I scanned the picture in my head, but it doesn't seem to include brooms. :)