Shultzie,
Sorry, this is a No-Microsoft-Zone. I had a hardware failure, not a software one. The hardrive interface (in the hardrive) failed. Doesn't happen much, but it does happen. The drive was less than a year old and Seagate actually replaced it under warranty (how often does that happen?). I had back up all my stuff on 5 DVDs. 4 were fine. The 5th (that had all my stunt stuff - pictures, etc. plus some other stuff like vacation pictures) had some sort of defect and I can't retrieve most of what's on it. Usually, I do a validation check after writing a DVD, but this time I was in a hurry and, well, you know the rest.
Since this, I now have a SATA mirrored RAID setup (two Seagate 750gig drives), so this won't happen again unless the planets align and both drives fail simultaneously.
Sorry for the deviation from topic, Matt. Good luck with the Cobra. It's a very cool plane.