Ouch. Yeah, my laptop's "fried", likely the video card. Since it's AMD, I've been told if it's one of the models with deeper video card/hard disk (or was it motherboard?) integration, then even in that case I've still truly lost all the data. Fortunately, I have a USB stick for manuscripts, I email things to myself as backups if it's just text files, and then there's this neglected PC tower in the parentals' basement, that I suspect is happy to have me stare at its widescreen monitor once again.