Thank you for the help.I already have MCT on a usb. That's how I screwed up the installation -- I chose 32bit instead of 64.

So let me make sure I understand this. I should:

1) Get out of...

To start, this has been a long and ugly journey for me. I'm at a point where I'm about to give up.

My computer is a three-year old Toshiba laptop with a 64bit processcor and a 32 bit OS, 6GB. It...