You're right, I shouldn't rant. I suppose seeing Parsifal suddenly switch gears from his constant dickery to a sanctimonious high-horse attitude in this thread angered me a bit more than usual. But he's the only one I've really had a problem with, there's no need to project it on to anyone else.
Parsifal has a valid point to make, he's just particularly shit at making it. It's often very annoying to tech-savvy people to see those who don't really know what they're doing ask for help and then suddenly start behaving like they know better than the person(s) they're asking for help.
The community has grown particularly sensitive to this problem, so we often tend to overreact to (perceived) instances of that issue. Mind you, I'm completely out of the loop on what's happening, so I'm not trying to judge whether or not this was an overreaction or justified condescension; I'm just trying to shed some light on the psychological aspects of these kind of interactions.
That said, if you need any help with anything specific, feel free to bring me up to speed on the situation (It seems like a lot of the conversations took place on IRC, or maybe I'm just dumb and failing to piece a coherent story from this thread) and I might be able to assist. Although that was ages ago, I've assembled a few computers and have some idea of how to troubleshoot them. Then again, you seem to have plenty of volunteers already, so maybe that's not necessary. Whatever works for you.