Thanks, I was thinking the HDD. The machine acts virtually normal when booted off the 9.2.1 CD. I don't have access to an external HDD.. (well I do, but its over 128GB..) so I don't imagine it would work. It doesn't have an airport card, I got the machine with the original specifications. I'll have to look into a HDD (and more RAM).. possibly upgrade it to OS X while I'm at it.

Jake

@jpross123: throw it away? are you crazy?