August, top of the morning to you !  

 AA> One day I forgot that I had removed the live-cd
 AA> from the tray.. and the system proceeded to boot to WinME.  As I had
 AA> expected, the video rendered in 16 colour mode using my NEW video card!
 AA> It also failed to cooperate with my newly configured router-based
 AA> network (I had it previously configured using ICS and that worked
 AA> wonderfully well), but it disabled access to the router with a message
 AA> something like "A conflict is detected with 192.168.0.1 and MAC
 AA> address..." and proceeded to simply disable the interface!  WinME is
 AA> junk.  I'm not going back there. 

        Drastic step to take but I might understand. As U'U is
   supposed to NOT interfere with any of the system files (?), I would
   not blame it for this event. Can we look somewhere else for this
   change ? Or were these settings actually what you had selected in
   Me before ?   When I used U'U off Live CD, and then got back to
   Vista, nothing was crunged. I might misunderstand your post.
     
       
...    After TI, I am giving Ubuntu a hard time.
...      Or is it U'U giving me a hard time ???
 
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