1.1 30th May I closed the Alienware ticket. The boot seems to be reliable. The system seem unhappy to remain in screen saver in my user, but the two day download in Ben's user doesn't seem to have this problem. It could be the Alienware theme that is the problem. I need to raise a ticket next time I get the 'grooved purple screen'. I have not really reported the other oddness, including the CD problem/symptom.