Posting from home, but on Vinnie's computer, but with my backup drive. So, we know that we can boot up from my external drive perfectly - in fact, it's amazing. We boot off my drive and his computer is suddenly MY computer. We almost got my dead computer to boot off it, but it hangs up about the 3/4 point, which leads Vinnie to believe that it could be more than just the hard drive that's dead.
Tomorrow morning I'm going to call an authorized Mac store in Encino where Vinnie had work done on his hard drive. If they're working tomorrow, I might be able to bring it in and have them fix it there, as they take the AppleCare warranty. Otherwise, I have to ship it to Apple and it takes seven to ten days, although my computer guy says that it sometimes takes less. We shall see. I have the use of this computer for about ninety minutes now, so I'll do tomorrow's notes now and just post them with tomorrow's date.