[wasatchbl1]

My daughter loaded MSN messenger the other day, since then, when XP finally boots up, my keyboard and mouse are usless. The keyboard works to get into BIOS, but no changes there have any effect when XP boots up. I have also accessed the XP boot up screen by pressing F8, but none of those methods (i.e. Safe Mode, etc.) have any effect. No matter what I try, the keyboard and mouse will not work in order for me to enter the system recovery, or to delete anything that has been loaded. Any suggestions? I don't have an XP cd-rom, so I can't try that, and I am going to download the start-up disk from Microsoft and try that. Any other help would be appreciated.