Charyb wrote:

You have replied to a topic that dates back to July 2004.

So? I found the thread by searching in Google, and if I’m having the problem, odds are, so are others (BTW, I had already tried re-installation, and proven that the error is replicable (on both the old and new installation) on this machine), and they’re probably searching for the same exact error message I did (the one that the Avast screensaver threw when it failed), so why not let people find the answer, even if it’s from a thread originating in 2004?

Would you rather I start a new thread (that would have ranked poorly in Google’s search results for a very long time), and force people to struggle to find a potential answer to their problem?

Not a newbie, you know… been fixing computers and programming for over two decades. I think I know how to troubleshoot a problem.