I was actually speaking of the Microsoft (and many other) instructions in general. There is often quite a bit of superfluous information, yet when it comes to the actual instructions to be executed detail is lacking. Your instructions, on the other hand, are refreshingly concise and contain all necessary steps and usually potential results.

The particular page regarding the rebuildbcd was not too bad
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392/en-us
but even it did point out that “enter” was required after each step (fairly obvious of course) and it left out the fact that at the end a message would be displayed asking if I wanted to write the result with several options (I forget the actual text, but threw caution to the wind and chose “yes”).

At any rate, thank you for helping all of us with our otherwise insurmountable problems.