Tell me about it, a friend of mine dual booted Linux and Windows on my lappy but because Linux couldnt handle torrents i eventually decided that id dump it altogether and go back to having just XP. Everything has been wiped except the GRUB loader and in order to delete that (and therefore access windows that i have installed using the recovery disc) i need an original XP disc - something that the glorious people at Asus thought was just too much bother and instead fobbed me off with the aforementioned recovery disc.
Conundrum seeing as the only way to recover my machine is downloading an illegal copy of windows just so i can remove the GRUB loader! Whose fantastic idea was it to ship machines with recovery disks instead of the operating system!?!?
*rant over*
Good news on your lappy by the way, nice to see technology working for someone instead of the other way round for once!