The computer continues to deteriorate.  Last night Firefox took another hit for no apparent reason, and won't display web pages correctly now.  Back to using IE, which is now actually working better than Firefox.  So if I disappear for a while...

UPDATE:  Newest problem this morning is I can't log in to Google, therefore can't leave comments on blogspot blogs.  Last night I did some backups, transfers, and gathered up all the necessary installation files, wrote down a list of stuff I'll need to download, and of course, passwords.  Looks like format time.  I've been down this road before.