haha, yup, for sure. I got a little comfortable with windows update...at the time I had two hours worth of system updates...so this one didn't seem out of the ordinary. Now I know better. ^_^
Everything is working very well now.
I can max out all the graphics features on my games with no problems.
Now I have to figure out why one of my fans likes to buzz a lot when it spins faster...stupid thing.