Beautiful. I can't compete with that (mate!).

And thanks for your wishes re 2010, re which someone somewhere (was it todays paper?) has said, "good bye noughties, but don't we have to wait until 2011 for the tens to start?
(Their thinking is that just as the year 2000 had to end before we could say we had completed the millenium and were starting the next thousand years, so we wouldn't complete the 1st decade of the new century/millenium until the end of 2010. Sounds fair to me.)

But your band story resonates with me because here in 2010 and despite my advanced age (53) I'm actually just starting out on some semi pro playing work with a little weddings/functions band, after some 25 years of playing in church bands and music. Not giving up playing in church at all, but spreading my wings as it were.
(See www.vinyltonic.com.au I'm the dorky looking dude on bass in the trilby hat. All the better to hide my balding head!)

And re your belief. You're right about coming this way only once. But as I'm sure your church time has underlined, this is only the apprenticeship for the real deal anyhow. Hence Paul's exhortation to become "good workmen, rightly dividing the word of truth"...

Now manning, while I've got your attention, try this for a hairy PC problem.
My rig is an AMD 3500 CPU on a 5 year old Gigabyte GA - KN -9F mobo. 2 250 gig HDD's one for PTPA one for OS and everything else. I run XP pro SP3. CPU clock speed ~2.2Ghz. Sound card is a Delta 1010LT. Graphics (big deal, I know but FWIW) a nVidia 220GT Igig, new card, all good with that so far.
Most of the configuration/gear here I chose on the basis of PTPA forum recommendations and am well pleased with the results.

Issue is that I cannot get the mobo to accept more than 1.5 G of RAM despite that I am adding one of the specified brands (Hynix), and that the mobo's spec'd to accept up to 4G. When I plug more in I get a beep alarm from the mobo and she won't fire up. Just spent $110 today on 2 1G sticks of Hynix RAM and the PC won't look at it. Beeeeeep. Beeeeeep. Beeeeeep. Beeeeeep.

Hmmmmmm.

Given that I am doing everything in conformance with Gigabyte's specs, I am wondering if there is something in the BIOS that needs to be reset, RAM size restriction or setting perhaps, and how to get into it and adjust?

Await your thoughts and advice with interest.

Others also very welcome to comment. Can't be too obscure a problem.

Cheers then. Off to sample a frothy Coopers, maybe a West End.

John