so a system restore won't do the trick? DAMN YOU MICROSOFT!! thanks for the advice, i'm going to stick with xp for now, guess i'll go ahead and reformat
definitely plan on switching the server to linux as soon as i can convince my coder to get away from microshaft. i looked into freshmeat, and i found some great stuff. thanks for a new resource, ratbastid, and thank you sailor for the suggestions on a more secure way to update the server remotely. hopefully the server will be up and running (with CONTENT, no less) by tomorrow. i'll shout out when i get everything set up.
EDIT we're using bigdaddy's dns service