This is a test and only a test to see if blogging still works after my giant disaster.
So I installed Alcohol 120 to see if I could burn and image but on the reboot the machine just froze up. 
After many attempts in safe mode to gut the registry, I was still unable to boot.
So  I pulled out the handy dandy image recovery cds and of course during the last 60 seconds
the image is corrupt so I have been slowly rebuilding my machine.