>It finally shutdown and started responding when I rebooted. I don't know what it was doing .. but I'm very nervous about it now.
Just a FYI - if you ever need to force a shutdown, you don't need to pull the power cord/pop the battery - just press and hold down the power button for 4+ seconds. Any ACPI-compliant desktop or laptop computer (basically, any modern machine) should respond to this.
Regards. Al
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