so, i want to get back to this, now.

first, i need to see what happens when i reboot. i presume i reloaded the corrupted driver and i'll get the same errors. it could be worse....

i'm trying to think, though - did i add anything to the registry since the last reinstall? i don't think i did. so, i might be better off copying the previous one back over. 

maybe it's that easy.

i mean, i didn't realize that on the last reinstall, right. i had to boot up to learn it...

yeah. something is very wrong in the registry. so, i should go back to the last one. i think that's settled. that's why i keep backups.

so, i'll try that, first.

if it's not that easy, i want to figure out where in the registry that the msconfig reads the data from. is it just in the controlset? is it just reading the startup flag?

i will say this: i realized i had the msi server locked down, and ended up fiddling around with it to repair word. that is, on second thought, i might have created this part of the problem (the missing services) myself.

i think i still ought to rewind to fix it...

ok. up and at them...