the blue screen of death

i have it. the dreaded blue screen of death. i've gotten it before and made it disappear, but this time it's not budging.

i've tried norton goback.

i've tried safe mode.

i've tried safe mode with nuts and a side of crazy.

i've threatened to throw it out the window.

i've pressed F8 until it made a old style computer beeping noises and told me to bend over.

i even bent over and it still didn't give in.

i just told it to disable norton goback and i'm trying to start it with the xp installation disk. so far it has taken 15 minutes for norton goback to remove its own history from the c drive and it's only 20% of the way done.

why am i telling you this?

because i'm going to have a full-on nervous breakdown if i lose what's on my laptop, and writing about it allows me a tiny window of denial.

all of my quickbooks files, all of my desktop publishing, all the photos i've taken in the last month or so (thank god i used the backup service to back up the last three years' worth of family photos!), oh god, all of the files from the school.

what's that, you say? i should have backed things up?

of course, you would be right!

so let that be a lesson to you! 

(ya big whiner.)

somebody shoot me. please?

***update***
my system is up and running again. i'm about to start a mad backup so if it goes again my data will be safe.....

oh, and the baby? she's good too. turns out she had the flu. the flu flu. the real deal. i took her in yesterday and that's what they said. they also said i was right to wait and right again to take her yesterday since it was her fifth day of fever *and* no one else in the house is sick. that part of it still makes me nervous, but i'm trying to stay on the sane side of that at the moment.