Western Digital and Seagate sell some decent external hard drives with software to automatically backup your files, XP/2000/2003 all have decent backup software builtin for simple file backup scheduling.

I would setup a decent external HDD for daily/nightly backups and a DVD burner for a monthly archive.

Remember 2 is 1 and 1 is none.

Sorry you had this issue. As with the rest I will be glad to help you out.

dave