As to Schmitty and the computer woes, have you tried booting it with the recovery discs?
No Stan, 10 years is a long time and I'm not sure I have recovery disc's. I know I still have the disc's required to reformat the drive, but that will delete everything. Right? :-\
Yes, reformatting would be bad..as in human sacrifices, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria, etc. ;-)
There are various ways to create start up type disks that would let you take a look at what's on the hard drive. If the hard drive is still working, you could copy all of your porn, ooops, I mean data off it onto a thumbdrive. That'd let you get your data back, but it wouldn't restore your machine.
If you mean that you have the disks to reinstall Windows (and the hard drive is still good), you could then do a fresh install of Windows. A couple of dookie logs later, and bob's your uncle.
If you want to head down that path, I'd be happy to type up some instructions and then walk you through it over the phone if you want.