Yep, ended up going to Chris's house. Played Metroid Prime, DDR 3rd Mix, DDR MAX, watched FLCL and Cowboy Bebop Best Sessions, and I worked on Chris's comp. I figured out why nothing on the secondary IDE chain was being detected - the entire 2nd chain was disabled in the BIOS settings! Pakman had completely failed to notice this when he was putting in my burner, too... hit the little "+" key to change the setting, and poof, the secondary IDE chain was active. I have the two HDDs chained together in primary, and the two CD drives (the burner being master, for now) chained together in secondary.

Installed WinXP - as expected, took some time, but we got pretty much everything working... though, not much can be expected from a P2-400. Of course, the system isn't working nearly as well as Patty's P3-900 or so is. Plus, the 48x Creative CD-ROM drive is spazzing out every so often, mostly when you open a folder with MANY files in it. (I'm gonna try adding a jumper to the Creative and/or checking for a firmware upgrade, then switching around the master/slave duties if that doesn't work.) At least it's running a hell of a lot better than when WinME was on it. I ended up leaving my stuff behind and just going back home, since it was late and I wasn't really done anyways. I'll come back tomorrow.

While I'm updating... some of you may have heard this, but my brother got his new BMW M3. o.O If you wanted to see it, here's a pic:

The clock on this site still isn't fixed -_- While I can manually fix the timestamp on my own entries, comments will be frozen with the incorrect time stamped on them. Ugh -_-