..need I say that this is a disaster? To put it mildly? The good news is that it's very likely that the files I'm looking for are also (almost certainly) saved elsewhere. But still, absolutely truly nasty. I no longer have BSD on any of my laptops. ..I -have- been planing on putting it back on, using an alternate tutorial. This.. this, justifiably, freaks me out. What could cause this? No, I haven't searched anywhere else to see if others have had this problem. So this is almost just a straight-up rant. Something of this magnitude shouldn't be a problem. You shouldn't be able to -get- software that does this kind of thing. This is BSD. You're better than this.