Mambo: thanks for the advice, I actually handle IT purchases for our company, so I am well used to chasing suppliers for quotes, packages, invoices and also warranties... lol, I can get pretty stroppy with them.
I'm thinking you may be right about the corrupt file system, just before upgrading I not only backed up my files, but deleted some of them (why not all of them? dunno). Since they're going to be deleted anyway, it might have been a good idea to clean it up beforehand, formatting and all.
