On 9/18/2013 10:20 PM, Dave Gomboc wrote:
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Having received no response to date, I am wondering if this perhaps
isn't the right forum for asking for advice regarding my problem.  If
it is not, could someone please suggest where I should be asking
instead?

This is the right place.  I suspect your somewhat convoluted report had
folks scratching their heads, all hoping someone else would pick this
one up.  Could you condense it into the bare required facts?

Also, I didn't see a statement as to why you booted the recovery disk to
begin with.  That fact alone suggests you already had some problem.
What was it?

-- 
Stan