So much for that...

[mdlbear]

The Y.D.'s laptop is now properly set up with Firefox and OpenOffice.org. BTW, you'll want to download OOo from a mirror -- the main site is down to a crawl. You have to scroll down to find the mirror, and then go browsing around the mirror to find the right image. Bad web-page design.

She can take it from here, except maybe for figuring out how to change her workgroup name. I couldn't figure it out, either; it would probably take an hour or so of trying various control-panel icons to find whichever non-obvious one it's now kept under. I'll ask $EMPLOYER's IT guy in the morning, if I remember. And at some point we'll want to copy files; the simplest way is probably to pull the drive and mount it in a USB enclosure, although booting up Linux and sharing it with Samba is a possibility as well.

Needless to say, I haven't gotten much else done this evening.