We have to be gettin pretty close. I tried restoring SYSTEM.TSH back to the SYSTEM.INI file, but the computer still will not boot in Normal mode without having to skip the SYSTEM.INI file. Including the SYSTEM.INI in the boot causes the computer to go straight to the shutdown screen still(although now when the shutdown screen comes up the computer automatically turns off, before i had to turn it off manually-don't know if that means anything??). Without the SYSTEM.INI file the computer does boot in normal mode, so it still may be a problem with this file. Is it possible that both copies are bad?? or would it make a difference if I copied the .ini file and pasted it over top of the .tsh file in wordpad?? Thanks so much for your help so far! Your assistance is very much appreciated.

-Jim