>>It still mostly runs, but there is something somewhere that's seriously fried:
>>there are two or three programs that just won't run (including the WinArch 2
>>sample test from Sybex: boy, am I glad I passed anyway... :-) )
>You might try deinstalling and reinstalling applications that got hosed.

I did, several times. I suspect it's a shared DLL somewhere.... Oh, well, I was due for a reformat anyway, now that VS6 final is coming out....