Alrighty guys, only gonna be checkin in till I get my lappy back. Hopefully I'll be back soon.
Edit
ARG

So I took Iris in this morning with every intention of leaving her with the Geeks. Then they tell me, oop, you needed to bring the warranty info with you, and oh by the way it will take about 3 weeks, not 2.

You have gotta be kidding me!

So my options are, wait 3 weeks for the Geeks to send it to HP anyway, send it to HP myself, or just not do anything. (It is after all only the CD drive, which I never use.) At this point, what I'd rather do thank you very much, is make the whole lot of em walk the plank!