Thanks a lot. It shouldn't be... If worse comes to worse, I can bum someone's laptop just to activate the key. I appreciate your kindness though. For that alone, I will add you to my whitelist now; although I usually do that after I successfully activate the key.

Just an update, the tech. said my video card is shot. Thankfully, their is a basic onboard GPU as well. So no more modern games for it. It is just going to become a internet/document PC. I think I might be getting it back today.

I got my gimpy craptop back today. No more modern games for it, but I still have a workhorse that I can browse, create docs, and hoard games with. Thanks for waiting. I have marked received, and already whitelisted you from before. Thanks again.