Paul,

Thanks for the clarification on re-imaging to a new machine. I can now eliminate 1 potential.

If you have a licensed copy of Office student, does that entitle you to use MS' 'cloud office' that (I'm assuming) includes PowerPoint?

Mark

P.S. It seems that with a free MS Skydrive account you do have access to Word, Excel, PP, + to create and save documents. Just found this ability on my Skydrive account that I'd been using simply for duplicate archival storage.