So, I'm an idiot for having a legitimate complaint? Geez, you people are incredible. Apparently Free Republic is a sacred site that does not allow for anything but sycophantic worship of the creation (FR) and it's creator (JR).
If the recent iteration of Windows, is still an alpha version prematurely pushed onto the public by Microsoft, this and many other problems would not exist. These types of disasters will continue...
Getting snippy won't fix the problem.