What amazed me was that when I first opened the case up the chip fan wasn't moving at all. In fact I could barely move it by hand. I happened to find a replacement on a pentium II heatsink in one of my drawers that actually fit. God knows how long the fan has been out, but it has obviously been a while and the system was rock solid when it was overheating. Nowadays my system starts getting unstable when my video card fan has too much dust in it.

Tony, I definitely was thinking along the lines of VMware until I got it working. Now that it's up and running, I can start the hassle of replacing the State's ssoftware with the modern stuff, but at the much more leisurely pace required with dealing with anything having to do with the state.