A week later

and my computing situation is back to normal. Had some hiccups with the backups that made it take longer than I should have, but:

Apple took my laptop Thursday.
They fixed it in Houston on Friday.
I had it back at 9:00AM Monday. Go, Apple! Quite happy with that.

I figure, the hard drive was kind of small, and they've just replaced it with a fresh one. Why don't I upgrade it? So I took the lappy right to Onyx Consulting and had 'em pop in a 320GB drive. That was done by 3PM.

I went to restore from backup, and it didn't really work out. Turns out the backups were corrupted somehow and the system couldn't read them. So I had to pull all my info off of Elise's computer, where I'd restored it on Thursday, instead of directly from the backup. Kind of messy.

Then I found this article which tells me how to fix the corruption in the backups. So I'm running those steps now, in the hopes that soon I'll have everything running smoothly again.

While I'm a little ticked at the pain it's been to restore, I'm still happy that I have been successful at restoring, with only a few small things lost.