Thanks, just what I wanted to know. It's not that I can't find these things, but when I do, I just don't know if I can trust them. Best they come recomm ended.
The P-M wouldn't boot, I'll try to get another later one.
Having put the Recovery disk in, Sooooooooothing music played at me while I ran an instal. Just what I needed.
The laser 4 loaded in 60 seconds. 
However, I would like to get it going on Pro, but no hurry there. It seems that I'm going to have to shell out on the soft cos that's what must be wrong,
I have a legal copy of Vista 32, so may just be tempted to become an all Vista house....erm, except for the printer machine which will have to dual boot I guess. What fun.
However the Re-install layout was cast in stone. First thing it did was to format the drive...All my partitions are gone, and the Recovery space is back. Ah well, Fair Dues...It's what it's supposed to to I suppose. It would have been nice if it hadn't bulked the first coulple of tries. Furthermore, I could never see any files on that CD...not even with all the file view restrictions off. One of those mysteries.
Drooping onto the keyboad again, so thanks again for all the help. One is catching up with the modern world, but sooooooo slowly compared to my yooof.
LR