w00t!!! don't have a clue what happened, but I decided to try to put on the .upgrade file again, and now it works, not sure why it still wouldn't see the partitions after the first time I upgraded but oh well, this would have been nice to gotten taken care of when it happened on friday, before my 5 hour drive to dallas, and my 5 hour drive from dallas, oh well, it works now, and the laptop provided music for about 4 hours of the trip.

eli