To make a long story short, I have WinXP and Red Hat 9.0 installed on the same hard drive in my laptop. Previously I had been using the GRUB bootloader to choose my OS, but I had to re-install Windows ...
After managing to completely hose my system, I decided it was time for a wipe 'n reload. I backed up all relevant files, and blew everything away. I'm installing Ubuntu 8.04 AMD64, and Windows XP 32 ...