I downloaded it and gave it a shot. Easy to use. A little hard to get exact dimensions and I don't yet see an easy way to get slopes of the ground elevations into the model. Still, it does basic shapes well. And the surfaces can be filled with textures supplied or custom imports. It does do import and export of jpegs. Once the model is done you can spin it around to see any perspective you want and take a shot, as I did below of the little tutorial drawing I did. Seems I forgot to put texture on the backside. I didn't realize till I turned the thing around. The 3d will come in handy but I think I will still use PhotoImpact to add the text, symbols, plants, and generally finish the work. Here is the plan view with perspective turned off.

I got an error message that this wasn't the right driver for my computer. Apparently it is not the right driver & the windows or the driver told you so. So I don't think I'd be installing it again. You may have been able to go to control panel and double click the Intel Graphics icon and set the resolution to the right size... but with that not the right driver message, you sort of did the right thing. That'll work! The proper thing may have been to go to Device manager and roll back the driver. Then microsoft would get the message and if enough people did the same they'd probably give you the proper driver as one of thier updates in the near future, if it is required. I had an intel 965 chipset graphic driver update from windows update for a vista laptop on April 7th. Works fine.

FWiW The Lenovo OneKey Recovery. It loads its own recovery environment but it does use the laptop display... and there are several mouse clicks to be able to use it. Lenovo has a couple of Recovery partitions & will load the operating system to the drives to a like new state. It also has restore backup and images capabilities if you set it up to do so from within windows originally. Sounds like the display or display adapter is bad, as it wont even run the display from outside of windows correctly. Or possibly the display drivers have been given a virus - Hooking up a separate monitor, if it works..run a virus scan - Or use the OneKey recovery to bring it back to the like new state, both might be might be worth a try.. before returning it to some distant repair center. I surely would do it here. The OneKey virus scan is actually McAfee that updates and scans boot sectors of all partitions and offers a quick or full everything scan... very long scans both of them. Its nice to have made the Recovery DVD Disks and keep those stored away safely too, for when the hard drive fails or becomes not accessible.

You did alright price wise, as others have said. Remember that and do not feel cheated, it is a reasonable computer for reasonable needs. However you really need to consider the word "gaming" in relation to a 20 year old. Is he going to take this tower to tournaments, I doubt it has or can have the punch needed for that type of activity. A video card for serious gaming can cost as much as that computer. One of my computers has 2 six wire power connectors to the video card alone as it needs 125 watts and I am not a gamer at all at any level. The documentation suggested I needed a 650 watt or better to use the video card successfully. The power supply is totally inadequate at 300 watts. A cheap power supply will not fit the needs and factory built machines for the masses do not use high end parts. Should you decide to upgrade the power supply make sure HP used a standard sized power supply rather than a custom build of non conventional sizing. Even the quad core processor will not take high end gaming I suspect. As I wrote at the outset, don't feel cheated. You bought a very nice gift for an age group above you with the best of intentions. Buying electronics for any 10 to 25 year old today is almost impossible without their input as we old foggies (me, not you :~) ) really have no idea what their needs or wants are. All computers look like black boxes on the outside but inside is a very different story. Ha ha, just before posting I took another look at the thread. Zep's 15.0 post says it all.