pretty much every other thing i did today was taking a nap. damn, i must've been tired this week and caught up today. i decided to stop the computer's recovery efforts that had been going on since thursday because it's just going to take forever at this rate and it doesn't need to take so long. i had pretty much selected all files that weren't system files plus a few applications. i went back and deselected the itunes library and some other music loop files because i have them on the ipod and on another computer. this streamlines the files i want to less than 16gb. much better than the whole disk as we tried before (72gb) and much better than when we had the music files selected (53gb).