As an aside...
What OS was the GF's laptop running and what is your's running?
From memory (read in an article a long long time ago in a magazine far far away), teh "path too deep" error is an MS OS issue. I seem to recall that XP can address a deeper directory than Win98...
Now, where is Conan the Librarian when you need him (or her)?
Regards,
Shuttlebus