Computer Frustrations

Yesterday, the family stopped at a Family Christian Stores location (we'd parked directly in front of it when heading to Souplantation -- the same restaurant instantiated elsewhere as Sweet Tomatoes), where I picked up several new CDs. Given that the only CD players easily available are the ones in the cars, and other related reasons, the obvious first thing to do with these was to rip the contents into MP3s for loading onto my (and possibly robot_grrl's) iPod.

( didn't go as planned )

Bottom line: I either need to fix these computers, or get a replacement for at least one.

( Details on fixing or replacing computers )