^^ yea i love how 7 is looking, i just don't want to run a Beta OS on my machine in case theres some bad bugs or something. i'll just wait til it releases, im definitely switching to that though. Vista isnt super bad, i dont mind it (whereas some people blatantly just want to burn it to hell, for what reason im not sure), but 7 looks like a vast upgrade so far from what i've seen.

ive let it sit for a long amount of time and its done nothing, so i'll just try uninstalling and restarting, then reinstall and try it, as well as these other solutions.