Hey planecrazy,
may be you've cought a virus or stuff like that - comes from using a System, that has holes you can fly through ;-)
Well, if you need your stuff - go to
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/ get an image of Knoppix, which is a Linux-System runnning from CD (or DVD, ig you have the time for the download)
After downloading the image, burn it on CD
Put the CD in the CDROM, shut down and make sure, that start from CDROM is No. 1 and activated.
Will take about three minutes or so, because the CD doesn't know, what kind of comuter you have and has to explore it.
After that the system runs from the CD - hraddisks are writeprotected - if you want to write on a disk, you have first to give the rights.
Included on the CD is Open Office, K3B, a burn-Programm, Mozilla for surfing and so on.
Nice rescue CD to have!
Greetings Flying Bull
P.S. it's a german site, could be that there is something similar in english, but Linuy is english, so I guess, everybody halfway intelligent should be able to handle it