an update: rambling about, I found an error 82 chat on http://www.mail-archive.com/lisalist@mail.maclaunch.com/msg00167.html. 82 is "no hard drive response"... James suggested flipping the flywheel of the hard drive with the eraser end of a pencil immediately after booting. I tried this several times and finally got it to run. It sounds like my old '60 36hp VW, but it runs past the checkouts and gets me to the desktop, files open!

I now have two issues (that I know of) left:

- first, the biggest: my monitor still has those three vertical bands of the same image... hence, I have three screens, three cursors, etc... still looks like the Lisa Screen shot on http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisafixstuff/

- secondly, my floppy drive is frozen. I removed it from the cage, and could move several parts... but am not sure if it's electrical or a moving part I'm not aware of is frozen.

However, progress is made... thanks!