I hear you Capp, I feel as if I'm putting on a facade for so much of my life, yet sometimes the complex inner "me" just comes through. I think it's just part of being the complex animal that is human.

On a more practical note, how is your hard drive doing? I ask this because if it's completely inaccessible, there's one bizarre yet often successful way to retrieve info off of it: put the hard drive in the freezer.

I had a laptop hard drive go out on me once. I put the laptop in the freezer for a few hours and was able to access the HD long enough to get what I needed off of it. I was in the process of upgrading computers at the time, so the timing as good.

Anyway, whenever I hear of someone's hard drive failure, I always want to pass this news along. The scientific explanation is that the cold air helps bind the connectors in the hard drive to the disks of the HD, or something. Anyway, might be worth a try.