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-As a friend suggested, i went into safemode to try and delete the HP_Administrator folder that i was denied access to. It failed, however i tried something randomly... i opened bearshare to try and run it.

--The first picture contains the the regular "-- has encountered a problem...etc", message, so i clicked the "click here" to see the data report.
the second picture is after i clicked data report.

--the second picture contains the error report contents, perhaps it crashed cause i didn't have access to the internet, which i assume is the actual problem. however i thought i'd post it and get your opinion.

and yes i deleted all my temp interent files after that.

is there a reason why ***** is in the imagehost?

http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/..._safemode1.jpg

http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/..._safemode2.jpg

there i did it on another host.

alrighty! so i tried downloading again. before i went and tried to download music, i went to my downloads list, where there were 3 songs unfinished. i selected them all and started them. they all finished... however when i went to go download songs, so i clicked on one song to download, went to select another and then it froze.

don't give up... :{

well....you know what I'd do at this point?

burn all relevant files to discs, and then wipe the drive completely clean, and do a fresh install of the OS...its the surest way to solve mounds of issues...you mention a recovery disc...are you able to do the above?..wipe and do a clean install of XP?

well it gives me an option like that, and repair

scrëw the repair...full clean install...

if I were you, which I'm glad I'm not because I HATE HP, I would backup, reformat, reinstall, then immediately download AdAwareSE and Spybot Search & Destroy, update them, and then run them....and find any other malware scanner available to try and rid your new OS of the cr@p HP bundles in...

hell...I'd just go get a copy of XP, download the chipset and other drivers for the MoBo, and throw the GödDåmñed recovery discs into a fire! (that's how much I hate HP systems!)

ROFL!

So yes i managed to fix it... i'm still using the old version, however what i did was i popped in the recovery disk AGAIN and this time it replaced the old HP_Administrator folder, that i was denied access to, with a new one. so far i've been downloading and things seem fine. -knock on wood- i hope i don't jinx myself :P