I'm an idiot. Last night, I never checked to make sure the IDE cable was fully connected to the motherboard, ‹sarcasm›and apparently the CD-ROM only works when the cable is connected.‹/sarcasm› =) The CD-burner still doesn't work, though, so I guess it's going with me next time I go target shooting.

The first time I started reading your page

http://web.archive.org/web/20001018141441/http://uncledennis.com/

That's pretty sweet--they even have several of my layouts cached. Luckily, I still have them all on my hard drive as well, plus I have all the posts too. =)

Cool, I wish I hadn't deleted most of my layouts. I would've liked to take some screenshots of them to save.