Thanks for the link to Hidden Valley. Right now I am using Bill's Fertilizer, which I recently bought for the plumerias, so I will see how that works. I am in Zone 9 now and so far my plumerias don't have rust yet. But my cannas are starting to get it so I imagine the poor plumies will be next. For the bugs that love hibiscus I use Bayer Advanced for once-a-year systemic drench. It lasts about 8 months, then I switch to soapy alcohol spray. So far in Zone 9 I haven't seen any nasties, but I've only been here since June (and I brought all my Chokoloskee plants with me - about 200!) Anyways, here's one of my babies that I made with a Q-Tip. . . it has colors similar to yours And this one I've posted before is my favorite: This one I trained as a tree and for some reason has blooms with several different colors. I know how exciting it is to see the new plants bloom! I wish I could get my babies to bloom when they are little like yours. I have 6 new ones I am dying to see what they look like! Thanks again! Susie

that program does contain a registry cleaner if you did run it and allow the registry cleaner to remove entries it could have contributed to your problem. If that is the only new program you have added you might want to contact the manufacturer and find out if this is a common occurrence after using their product. When using any type of registry cleaner you run a risk of losing essential items. I personally never use registry cleaners. Try the microsoft option zep gave you by inserting the windows cd and following the directions on that page to do the recovery console, note that it also has the more information area with a second command to try. If it was your registry that got messed up using the recovery console might fix it. You did not tell us if this is xp or vista, assuming it is xp follow these directions first to try to get to safe mode and select last known good config, if that works then good if not do the above microsoft method. Getting into Windows Safe Mode.

Also "The number one reason for laptop sound to fail is for the speaker volume to be turned down or muted." "If your sound card fails on your laptop and it's not a daughter card, it certainly isn't worth putting in a new motherboard, even if you can find one used. It's way too much work and you're likely to break something else, and there are plenty of work-arounds to a dead sound card." "You can buy a USB sound card or a PC (PCMCIA) sound card, either of which will probably do a better job than the original integrated sound." Here is a link that might be useful: Information

Vikki, here is what our image expert says... *** Sounds like it will be difficult to ascertain where the corruption is happening at this point. She needs to test the card and the cable, and if it's neither of those it's likely the camera. For all we know though, the corruption could have been introduced in going to CD. Wiping the card was probably a bad move though - you really shouldn't do that until you have things working on your drive. If the images on the CD are bad she's probably out of luck. Can't say for sure without being able to test things. If you can get me that card I can try to run a low level search and see if I can rebuild the index file. Generally when a camera 'clears' itself it only erases the index, not the files themselves. However if she's taken more photos on it or zero'd it out it's not likely to work. *** I told him you already tried an image rescue app (which one did you use?). Do you have these photos on your hard drive as well as CD? That would help. If you find yourself down this way, let me know. Jodi-