I can't get it to boot from the CD-RW to save my life. I set it as the priority drive in the BIOS, and it spins as if it wants to be read, but then the boot process just goes around it every time.

If I try to load from last known good configuration, the same error happens again. If I try to load into Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Command Prompt, a slightly different thing happens every time...the system starts loading in SYS files and halts on the following one:

Windows/System32/Drivers/agp440.sys

It just sits there for about two minutes with the HDD grinding here and there. Then it loops back around to do the disk check, and once that's done (always finds no errors), it just produces the same STOP error and we're back to square one.

I'm going to try and round up six floppies now to make that set of boot disks and boot from the floppy drive. *sigh*

In the meantime, I'm checking back here for any additional ideas if the new info I posted gave you any...