>Hi Bill,
>
>Yep and I posted it in another part of this thread. A BSOD forced me to shut down without closing Windows properly. As a result ScanDisk ran, and the problem went away. I don't know, however, one way or the other if that's the fix, just that it stopped the behavior.

Interesting. It would seem that the OS's are fairly robust about recovering ... generally. :-) But if things start really going wrong, as Ian Malcom indicated, deterioration escalates rapidly. :-)