[green_athena]

The trollies always say "jubi baoka!" when you hit them, so I always think "ouch! ", and that just seems to be the situation when my computer wouldn't come back up.

Starting the game over is one thing, fine. But what's worse is that I had spent a whole bunch of time rolling up some kickin' characters that I was just about to start building up.... had a great party going. Could not save them. I'll need to do it again. Ah, well .. I guess I can tick away at it slowly here and there and it won't seem to take so long.

I of course lost some other wonderful stuff on my hard drive, but thankfully I _believe_ I had everything actually important to life (writing, pictures) backed up someplace else.

I suspect it was actually something within Windows that crapped out on my computer. Ah, the joys of Microsoft (smell that? that's Sarcasm...).

Thank you so much for all your empathy and helpful hints!
This is a wonderful game forum! I don't post anywhere online much, so I never would have guessed it.