Yay!

So it looks like maybe the hard drive isn't going bad. The virus protection found 7 viruses and now the computer is running fine again.  The people from Dell thought it was the hard drive and were going to send someone out to replace it.  We weren't sure if we were going to be able to get everything off of it...i.e., our pictures!  So I am very happy with the computer working again.  Thank goodness we are still under warranty though!  So regular posting should resume Monday:)