thanks for the reply....I did look and try the stuff on the site and it didn't seem to help....for some reason, I just booted and it seems to work....ty tho.

As for the DVD skipping problem....I have looked around and nothing seems to help....the hdparm -d1 /dev/cdrom OR /dev/dvd don't work because I get this:
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# hdparm -d1 /dev/cdrom

/dev/cdrom:
operation not supported on SCSI disks
And I am left sittingthere thinking WTF. It's an IDE cable, channel and Windows sees them as IDE as well (I checked to make sure I wasn't crazy)

Ideas?